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^AITH CURES. 



Other Faith Cures ; 



OR, 



Answers to Prayer in the Healing of the Sick, 



CHARLES CULLIS, M. D. 

AUTHOR- OF "FAITH CURES," " MORE FAITH CURES," ETC. 



'The prayer of faith shall save the sick." — James v. 14. 



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Copyright, 1885, 
By CHARLES CULLIS, 

BOSTON. 



INTRODUCTION. 



" And they went out and preached that men should repent. 
And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that 
were sick and healed them." — Mark vi : 12. 15. 

" Heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, the king- 
dom of God is come nigh unto you." — Luke x : 9. 

IT seems strange to us. when the gospel has placed side 
by side repentance of sin and healing of sickness, that 
the devil should have shorn the Christian of his power 
by putting asunder what God had joined together; or that, 
when renewing this truth to the Church by the Spirit, she 
should find herself halting and questioning, and thus hin- 
dering the kingdom of God which is come nigh unto us. 

We speak that we do know, and testify that we have 
seen, that since God has opened our eyes to see and our 
hearts to understand the fulness of the gospel in this 
regard, that the "arm of the Lord hath been revealed." 
" These things said Esaias when he saw His glory and spake 
of them." We have seen His glory and we must speak. 

They come from far and near, the sick in body, the sick 
in soul, often with little or no comprehension of the way or 
means that shall bring relief. Their need is great, they are 
desperate. It is just the soil in which to cast the seed of 
the kingdom. " Do you know of whom you ask this great 
boon? Do you realize that it is from One whom you have 
despised and rejected?" The Spirit bears in the convic- 
tion of sin. " Can I ask health from Him in whom I have 

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VI INTRODUCTION. 

not believed? Tell, oh ! tell me, how may I find Him?" 
" He is here. He is nigh thee, to forgive, to cleanse, to 
heal." With heart broken, with tears of penitence, all is 
yielded, and the torrent of blessing pours into the wounded 
soul. Jesus is received, the body responds to His compas- 
sionate touch, sin and sickness are banished, and the once 
shackled slave steps forth free — free in Christ Jesus ! O 
Christian, O Church of God, arise and shine, for thy light 
has come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee! 

" Sing, O daughter of Zion ; shout, O Israel ; be glad and rejoice 
with all thy heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. 

"The Lord hath taken away thy judgments. He hath cast out 
thine enemy. The King of Israel, even the Lord, is in the midst 
of thee ; thou shalt not see evil any more. 

" In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not ; and 
to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack. 

" The Lord thy God, in the midst of thee, is mighty ; He will 
save, He will rejoice over thee with joy; He will rest in His 
love; He will joy over thee with singing. 

" I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assem- 
bly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden. 

" For I will make you a name and a praise among all the people 
of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, 
saith the Lord." — Zeph. iii : 14-20. 

God is turning our " captivity." Praise be to His holy 
Name ! Churches and church-members are being gathered 
into the fold of the promises. 

Fifteen years have passed, while I have gone quietly on, 
believing and praying with the sick, claiming no power of 
my own, but claiming just what God has promised : — 

" The prayer of faith shall save the sick." Not by man's 
power, not by miracle working, but by simply believing that 
the promises of God are true, that the promise in James 
is as true as any other. If it were not so, I should say, " I 



INTRODUCTION. Vll 

cannot believe the promise in James v : 14, 15, for this thing 
is among the tokens of the past ; it cannot be true at this 
day." Where would my faith hold ? If one promise can be 
left out, why not another ? And what would become of the 
30,000 promises in God's Word ? 

No, let us believe God at all costs, — believe that His 
Word is true and must be fulfilled. There is no other 
safety for our faith than the grand and full acceptance of all 
God offers to His church. I have already published two 
volumes upon this subject, the first called " Faith Cures," 
the second, " More Faith Cures " ; and now the Lord 
enables me to present to the world this third volume. 
Hundreds of cases might be added to these to prove to the 
church that God lives to hear and answer prayer. These 
that are given are not selected cases, but such as have come 
to me, and have returned thanks to God for His wonderful 
work. 

To show how the truth is spreading, I would state that 
" Faith Cures " has been translated into other languages, 
and foreign tongues are spreading the glad tidings. From 
all parts of the world we hear that God heals the sick. In 
India, among our own missionaries, there have been numerous 
instances of the healing of the sick in answer to prayer. It 
will not be out of place to insert here the following account 
of the work in China : — 

FAITH HEALING IN CHINA, 

One day when our native helper, Mr. Yao, was preaching in the 
chapel, an old beggar-woman, of over seventy years of age, came 
to the door, and listened to what was said about the person and 
power of the Lord Jesus Christ. She returned to her home, and 
told Mrs. Chang, a blind neighbor, that which she had heard, and 
proposed, next day, to lead her round to the chapel to ask the 
preacher if Jesus could open her eyes. The old woman accord- 
ingly appeared at the chapel the next day, with her blind friend, 



Vlll INTRODUCTION. 

Mrs. Chang, and told the preacher their object in coming. After 
a long conversation, Mr. Yao told the blind woman that if she had 
faith to be healed it could be done. They accordingly kneeled 
down, and prayed that God would have mercy upon them, and 
regard their prayer. 

This was repeated the next day, and again on Sunday, when 
Mrs. Chang's eyes were improving. She was beginning to see 
again. By the Sunday following, her sight — of which she had 
been deprived for three years — was perfectly restored, and she 
now wished all to join her in praising God for what He had done. 
Within a fortnight after the day she was first led to the chapel 
and asked to be cured, her eyes were opened and she could see as 
other people. No medicines were used, nor were any other 
means than those of faith and prayer employed to bring about 
this end. The simple woman believed implicitly that Christ had 
the same power to heal to-day as He had eighteen hundred years 
ago ; and she sought and found in Him what she desired. — 
China's Millions. 

Surely the church of God is awakening to its privileges. 
That herein God shall be glorified is all my desire. 

Will the reader of this book pray that the spirit of God 
, may more and more fill the Church, until hearts everywhere 
shall believe God for His "uttermost" salvation. 

May the Holy Ghost fall upon the reader. May the 
" Word of Christ dwell in us all, richly," is my prayer as I 
send forth this record of God's faithfulness to His Church. 
" If the spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead 
dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall 
also quicken your mortal bodies by His spirit that dwelleth 
in you. 

CHARLES CULLIS. 

Beacon Hill Place, Boston, Mass, U.S.A. 



INTRODUCTION. IX 



GOD'S PROMISES FOR HEALING. 

Exodus xxiii : 25. — " I will take .sickness away from the midst 
of thee." 

Exodus xv : 26. — " For I am the Lord that healeth thee." 

Deuteronomy vii : 15. — "The Lord will take away from thee all 
sickness." 

Genesis xx : 17. — " Abraham prayed unto God, and God healed 
Abimelech and his wife and his maid-servants." 

Exodus xv : 26. — " If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of 
the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in His sight, and 
wilt give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I 
will put none of these diseases upon thee which I have brought 
upon the Egyptians." 

Leviticus xvi : 15-16. — " If ye shall despise my statutes, or if 
your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my com- 
mandments, but that ye break my covenant : I also will do this 
unto you ; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and 
the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of 
heart." 

2 Kings xx : 5. — "Thus saith the Lord, ... I will heal thee." 

2 Chronicles xxx : 20. — "The Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and 
healed the people." 

Psalms xxx • 2. — " O Lord my God, I cried unto Thee, and Thou 
hast healed me." 

Psalms ciii : 3. — " Who forgiveth all thine iniquities ; who heal- 
eth all thy diseases." 

Proverbs ix : 11. — " By me thy days shall be multiplied, and the 
years of thy life shall be increased." 

Proverbs iv : 22. — "For they (my words) are life unto those 
that find them, and health to all their flesh." 

Psalm xci: 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 15, 16. — "Surely He shall deliver 
thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pesti- 
lence. Thou shalt not be afraid . . . for the pestilence that 
walketh in darkness ; nor for the destruction that wasteth at 
noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at 
thy right hand ; but it shall not come nigh thee. There shall no 
evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 



X INTRODUCTION. 

For He shall give His angels charge over thee to keep thee in all 
thy ways. . . I will deliver him and honor him. With long life will 
I satisfy him, and show him my salvation. " 

Psalm cix : 20. — " He sent His word and healed them." 

Psalm cv : 3J. — " There was not one feeble person among their 
tribes." 

Jeremiah xxxiii : 6. — "I will cure them and will reveal unto 
them the abundance of peace and truth." 

Matthew iv : 24. — " And they brought unto Him all sick people 
. . . and He healed them." 

Matthew viii, 16, 17 : — " When the even was come, they brought 
unto Him many that were possessed with devils, and He cast out 
the spirits with His word, and healed all that were sick. That it 
might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, 
Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses." 

Matthew viii : 5,8, 13. — "And when Jesus was entered into 
Capernaum, there came into Him a centurion, beseeching Him, and 
saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously 
tormented. And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. 
The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that 
Thou shouldst come under my roof: but speak the word only and 
my servant shall be healed. And Jesus said unto the centurion, 
Go thy way ; and as thou hast believed so be it done unto thee. 
And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour." 

Matthew ix : 35 — "And Jesus went about all the cities and 
villages . . . healing every sickness and every disease among the 
people." 

Matthew xii : 15. — " And great multitudes followed Him, and He 
healed them all." 

Matthew xiv: 14. — "And Jesus went forth, and saw a great 
multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and He 
healed their sick." 

Matthew xiv : 30. — " And great multitudes came unto Him, 
having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and 
many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet : and He healed 
them." 

Matthew xxi : 14. — "And the blind and lame came to Him in 
the temple, and He healed them." 



INTRODUCTION. XI 

Matthew xii : 10, 13.— " And, behold, there was a man who had 
his hand withered. Then said He to the man, Stretch forth thine 
hand. And he stretched it forth ; and it was restored whole, like 
as the other." 

Matthew viii : 2, 3. — " And behold there came a leper, and 
worshipped Him, saying, Lord, if Thou wilt Thou canst make me 
clean. And Jesus put forth His hand, and touched him, saying 
I will : be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was 
cleansed." 

Matthew xii : 22. — " Then was brought unto Him one possessed 
with a devil, blind and dumb ; and He healed him, insomuch that 
the blind and dumb both spake and saw." 

Matthew ix: 20-22. — " And behold, a woman which was dis- 
eased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind Him and 
touched the hem of His garment. For she said within herself, 
If I may but touch His garment, I shall be whole. But Jesus 
turned Him about, and when He saw her, He said, Daughter, be of 
good comfort ; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman 
was made whole from that hour." 

Luke xiv : 2-4. — " And behold, there was a certain man before 
Him which had the dropsy. And He took him, and healed him, 
and let him go." 

Luke iv : 33-35. — u And in the synagogue there was a man, which 
had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, 
saying, Let us alone ; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of 
Nazareth ? art thou come to destroy us ? I know thee who thou 
art, the Holy One of God. And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold 
thy peace and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown 
him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not." 

Luke vii : 21. — " And in that same hour He cured many of their 
infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits ; and unto many that 
were blind He gave sight." 

Luke viii: 41,42, 51-54. — "And, behold, there came a man 
named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue ; and he fell 
down at Jesus' feet, and besought Him that He would come into his 
house ; for he had one only daughter about twelve years of age, 
and she lay a dying. And when He came into the house, He 
suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and 



Xll INTRODUCTION. 

the father and the mother of the maiden. And all wept, and be- 
wailed her ; but He said, Weep not ; she is not dead, but sleepeth. 
And they laughed Him to scorn, knowing that she was dead. And 
he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, 
Maid, arise. And her spirit came again, and she arose straight- 
way ; and He commanded to give her meat." 

John iv : 46, 47, 50. — " So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, 
where He made the water wine. And there was a certain noble- 
man, whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that 
Jesus was come out of Judea into Galilee f he went unto Him, and 
besought Him that He would come down, and heal his son; for he 
was at the point of death. Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way ; thy 
son liveth.' , 

John v : 5, 8, 9. — " And a certain man was there, which had an 

infirmity thirty and eight years. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take 

up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made 

whole, and took up his bed, and walked ; and on the same day 

r as the Sabbath." 

Luke ix : 11. — " He healed them that had need of healing. ,, 

Luke ix : 1, 2. — " Then He called his twelve disciples together 
and gave them power and authority over all devils and to cure 
diseases. And He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and 
to heal the sick." 

Luke x : 9. — " Heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them 
The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. " 

Acts iii : 2, 6, 8, 9. — " And a certain man lame from his mother's 
womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple 
which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them which entered into 
the temple ; then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none, but 
such as I have give I thee ; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazar- 
eth, rise up and walk. And he leaping up stood, and walked, and 
entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and 
praising God. And all the people saw him walking and praising 
God." 

Acts v : 14, 16. — "And believers were the more added to the Lord, 
multitudes, both of men and women. Insomuch that they brought 
forth the sick into the street, and laid them on beds and couches, 
that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow 



INTRODUCTION. Xlll 

some of them. There came also a multitude out of "the cities 
round about Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were 
vexed with unclean spirits ; and they were healed every one." 

Acts viii : 5, 8. — "Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, 
and preached Christ unto them. And the people with one accord 
gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing 
the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with loud 
voice, came out of many that were possessed with them y and 
many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. And 
there was great joy in that city." 

Acts ix : 17, 18. — "And Ananias went his way, and entered 
into the house ; and putting his hand on him said, Brother Saul, 
the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou 
earnest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and 
be filled with the Holy Ghost. And immediately there fell from 
his eyes as it had been scales : and he received his sight forthwith, 
and arose, and was baptized." 

Acts xiv : 8-10. — " And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impo- 
tent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who 
never had walked ; the same heard Paul speak ; who, steadfastly 
beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, said, 
with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and 
walked." 

Acts xvi : 16-18. — " Arid it came to pass, as we went to prayer, 
a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, 
which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. The same 
followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the ser- 
vants of the most high God, which show unto us the way of salva- 
tion. And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, 
turned, and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of 
Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same 
hour." 

Acts xix : 11, 12. — "And God wrought special miracles by the 
hands of Paul ; so that from his body were brought unto the sick 
handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, 
and the evil spirits went out of them." 

Acts xxviii : 3, 6. — " And when Paul had gathered a bundle of 
sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the 



XIV INTRODUCTION. 

heat, and fastened on his hand. And when the barbarians saw 
the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, 
No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped 
the sea, yet vengeance suff ereth not to live. And he shook off the 
beast into the fire, and felt no harm. Howbeit they looked when 
he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly ; but after 
they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they 
changed their minds and said that he was a god." 

James v : 14, 15. — " Is any sick among you? Let him call for 
the elders of the church ; and let them pray over him, anointing 
him with oil in the name of the Lord : and the prayer of faith shall 
save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up ; and if he have 
committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." 

James v : 16. — " Confess your faults one to another, and pray one 
for another that ye may be healed. The effectual, fervent prayer, 
of a righteous man availeth much." 




OTHER FAITH CURES; 



OR, 



Answers to Prayer in the Healing of the Sick. 



CHAPTER I. 



BEFORE inserting the testimonies to healing, as 
given me by letter, I add a few brief accounts, 
reported by a friend, of the regular weekly meet- 
ing, held at Beacon Hill Church in the city proper 
every Thursday at eleven o'clock, a.m. This hour is 
devoted to " the prayer of faith n that " shall save 
the sick." 

Thursday, December 28, 1882. 

There were forty present. A number of requests 
from sufferers and friends were read. Then all bowed 
in prayer. For a few moments there was perfect 
silence. It seemed like holy ground. The Master's 
presence was truly with us in mighty power, moving 
upon every heart as earnest prayer was offered for 
those present and absent, that each, while being healed, 
might be filled with the Spirit of God. Among those 
to be prayed with were cases of cancer, paralysis, 
spinal disease, etc. 



2 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

A lady said she had been ill the greater part of her 
life. While reading the Bible it came to her that God 
could heal her. Three weeks ago she came to this 
meeting. She could scarcely walk, but her faith laid 
hold of His Word, and doubt gave place to a settled 
conviction that God not only could but would restore 
her, and now with a perfect trust she could say to His 
praise, I am healed. 

Captain — — . — I want to say to the glory of God 
that I believe He is not only able but willing to make 
all whole. I wish to speak first of my wife. For years 
she was in poor health. She had several surgical opera- 
tions performed, and was given up by the best physi- 
cians in the State of Massachusetts. She was perfectly 
resigned to die. But two years ago we went to Lowell, 
to a Faith-Healing Meeting in connection with a Con- 
vention held there at the time by Dr. Cullis. My wife 
was prayed with by the Doctor. After prayer she 
found she could walk at quite a rapid pace, which she 
had not been able to do for years. Several times 
during the day she remarked to me, "I am better." 
Then she joyfully exclaimed, " I am healed." In less 
than five weeks her tumor entirely disappeared. She 
has been in good health ever since, joyfully walking 
by faith day by day. As for myself, praise God ! He 
has healed me body and soul. I was converted forty 
years ago. My experience was one of sinning and 
repenting, struggling and defeat, till two years ago. 
At the Convention at Lowell I made a full and com- 
plete surrender, consecrating my all to God. The 
joyful witness came. I felt that the blood cleansed 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 3 

me, that Christ was now my Elder Brother, that I was 
the child of a King, and that my inheritance was in 
and with Him. Ever since I have been walking by 
faith, gloriously conquering while resting alone upon 
His mighty arm. I, too, had been a great sufferer. 
I took Jesus as my Physician. I was prayed with, and 
in answer to prayer my pains were entirely removed. 
All glory to God ! 

A Brother. — Three weeks ago I came here suffering 
from kidney trouble. The doctors could not help me. 
I was directed to this meeting. I came and was prayed 
with, and have been steadily growing better ever since. 
I have had some severe trials of faith in giving up my 
medicine, but I said, " Living or dying I w r ill trust the 
Lord." Then I felt the healing power of Jesus go 
through me. To Him be all the praise and glory ! I 
stand here in strength and health. 

A lady said, "Ten years ago I was raised from abed 
of death in answer to the prayer of my husband. Three 
years ago, I received a powerful baptism of the Holy 
Ghost, when in answer to prayer I was again healed. 
Lately I have been suffering from spinal disease. 
To-day I can say, by simple faith I am healed in answer 
to prayer." 

Brother Scott said : " I rejoice to think of the privi- 
lege of coming to God for blessings of the body as well 
as the soul, and that the ground of our confidence is 
not our worthiness, but the atonement of the Lord 
Jesus Christ." 



4 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

Dr. Cullis said : " Claim just what God has promised. 
Many say they want to be resigned to God's will. 
Now, is it His will that we should be sufferers ? He 
says, * Rejoice in the Lord always/ and His will is that 
our joy should be full. We rejoice to see our children 
well, how much more does He ? As to healing, it is 
always according to our faith. But we must not 
expect new lungs or a new head in a moment or that 
a tumor is to jump out of us. It may in some cases be 
days or weeks before the cure is complete. The posi- 
tion we are to take is this: 'Lord, I am healed.' 
Don't pray any more to be healed, but rest upon His 
word. It is not the prayer of doubt but the prayer of 
faith that brings the blessing. Don't be afraid to tell 
others about it. A brother with consumption kept tell- 
ing others of his faith in the Lord, and every time he 
testified he received new strength. The Lord will be 
to you just what you confess Him for. Now use the 
strength He gives for His glory. Let us love Him with 
all our hearts, and ever take our stand resting in His 
mighty love." 

January 4, 1883. 

At the hour appointed a large number were found 
waiting, as at the Pool of Bethesda, for healing. When 
the question was asked, " Are all present Christians ?" 
four signified that they were not. But after conversa- 
tion and direction, they all took Christ as their Saviour 
from sin, as well as sickness. Several requests for pray- 
ers from sufferers, together with thanksgiving for restor- 
ation on the part of others, were read. Dr. Cullis ad- 
dressed those present, asking them if they knew of any 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 5 

sin, no matter how great or how small it might be, to con- 
fess and put it away, that their prayers be not hindered. 
" As we all bow in prayer, let God, by his Spirit, sweep 
through our hearts and cleanse His temples." After 
prayer the Doctor read a part of the fourth chapter of St. 
John's Gospel, commencing at the 43d verse, remark- 
ing that " when the Lord Jesus said to the nobleman, 
* Go thy way, thy son liveth,' he did not question the 
word of Christ, or ask Him to accompany him to the 
house to see if it were true. He simply believed the 
word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and went his way. 
I receive letters every day asking for prayers, and 
others come saying ' Such a time, I began to recover.' 
So it was with the nobleman's son ; when the servants 
met him, saying. 'Thy son liveth,' he inquired of them 
the hour when he began to amend, and they said unto 
him, ' Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.' 
So the father knew that it was the same hour in the 
which Jesus said unto him, c Thy son liveth.' The 
same Jesus who walked the streets of the towns and cities 
of Galilee, walks the streets of Boston to-day, for He 
says, 'Lo, I am with you always.' He has the same 
power now that He had then. Our privileges are even 
greater to-day. Then He touched only those who came in 
contact with Him : now He is everywhere, — in Boston, 
in Xew York, in California. He is with every one of 
His children. But all our blessings, whether for temporal 
or for spiritual things, hinge upon our faith. It is to- 
day ; according to your faith.' Not the tremendous 
amount of faith, but the simple trust in Him. Xow He 
says, ' Is any sick among you, let him call for the elders 
of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing 



6 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

him in the name of the Lord, and the prayer of faith 
shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, 
and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven 
him.' And now let us rest upon His Word." 

A lady testified that a year ago she was near death's 
door from a spinal and lung disease. All hope seemed 
gone, and she had not faith to trust God to heal her then, 
but she had learned from others the skill of the Great 
Physician. She was prayed with for her lung trouble, 
and was marvellously restored. She was then sorry that 
she did not ask for more. She was present at the 
meeting the next week, and in answer to prayer was 
healed completely. Praise the Lord for His won- 
drous love and power ! 

A lady said, " Ten years ago I was given up by the 
doctors. Nothing but death seemed before me. I 
heard of Dr. Cullis and managed to get here. He 
asked me if I had faith in the Lord to heal me. I 
told him I had. He then prayed with me, anointing 
me with oil. I was entirely healed, body and soul, 
and filled with the Holy Ghost. I lived for seven years 
without medicine, doing mission work for Jesus. By 
overdoing, my troubles have returned, but I believe 
God has healed me again. I know it, I am rejoicing in 
Him, a new creature. Glory to God, praise be to His 
name ! " 

A brother said : " I came to the Doctor a week ago 
yesterday, believing in prayer, and healing in answer to 
prayer. I am blind. I could then see nothing : to-day 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 7 

I can discern objects that pass before me, the moving 
of my hand before me. I expect to recover my sight 
fully. My heart is full of praise to God for what He 
has done." 

i\nother brother told how, some years ago, through 
overwork, his sight was injured. His eyes were so in- 
flamed that they had to be bandaged. He met Dr. 
Cullis, and asked him if he could help him. He was 
taken to a room alone, and asked if he would give him- 
self to God. After prayer and anointing, he was able 
to remove the bandages, and both spiritual and physi- 
cal sight was restored, and he praised the Lord for it 
all. He had been too anxious about the world ; the 
Lord had taken his son, his sight, and all, that he might 
bring him to seek his all in Christ. His eyes were 
again troubling him from overtaxing them, but he was 
trusting for a perfect cure, and believed he was healed. 
His heart was full, and he wished to let the world know 
he was the Lord's. 

A lady said : " For over a year I was praying for faith 
to come here. I was in great weakness. At last this 
Scripture came to me, ' I will go in the strength of the 
Lord.' Praise His name ! I can say I am healed. 
It is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our 
eyes." 

A brother said : " The Lord has done great things 
for me, whereof I am glad. For many years I was sick, 
only getting temporary relief. Two weeks ago I came 
here, and was prayed with. Great light broke into my 



8 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

soul, and health and strength came to my body. Before, 
all was dark and sad. Now the world is full of bright- 
ness to me, and I want to praise the Lord." 

After prayer with each individual, Dr. Cullis said, 
" We now claim God's promise for healing. If any 
book in the world is true, it is the Bible. Now simply 
take your stand for Christ. If your friends laugh at 
you, never mind : they laughed at Jesus. If you are go- 
ing to depend on Jesus, stop all medicine. Tempta- 
tions will come, but you must just say, ' I am healed.' 
I want to impress this upon you. Some will say, ' I 
do not feel any better.' Never mind, keep saying, 
• Lord, I am healed.' ' But I have my old symptoms : 
what then ? ' Hold on to God's promise, and you will 
find that your disease will be gone." 

January ii, 1883. 

In opening, Dr. Cullis read part of the eighth chapter 
of Matthew. " The question to-day is not, ' Is the Lord 
able, but is He willing to heal me ? Is it His will 
that I should be healed ? ' The leper said to Jesus, 
4 Lord, if Thou wilt,' and Jesus immediately answered, 
' I will. Be thou clean.' His love and power are the 
same, and He waits to say to each of us ' I will.' You 
remember the nobleman said, ' Lord, I am not worthy 
that thou shouldst come under my roof.' It is a grand 
thing to be humble, but we are not saved or healed be- 
cause we are worthy, nor need any despair because of un- 
worthiness. It is in Christ and not in ourselves that 
we are to trust. Jesus said of the nobleman : ' I have 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 9 

not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.' He said 
to Jesus, ' Speak the word only, and my servant shall 
be healed/ His word is the same now. He says to 
us, c I will,' not, Perhaps. c The prayer of faith shall 
save the sick/ not, Perhaps it may. The children of 
God should claim His promises for both soul and body. 
A man who had been prayed with said to me yesterday, 
' I have the pains yet, what am I to do ? ' I told him 
to take this stand — / ai?i healed. You may have the 
symptoms of your disease, but count the work as done 
and leave the symptoms with God. There are many 
who realise no result till, like the nobleman, they take 
Jesus at His word and go their way. Many come 
again and again, and often it is not till they depart in 
faith that the healing power comes. Let us not forget 
that it is the prayer of faith that saves. We walk by 
faith, not by sight. Believe God's word, feeling or no 
feeling. The Lord means all He says. His promises 
are for us to believe. Let me remind you again that 
the blessing God gives is always according to your 
faith, not your doubts, or feelings, or symptoms, but 
according to your faith." 

Among the testimonials was one of a blind man who 
said : " Two weeks ago I could not distinguish between 
light and darkness. I was then prayed with and an- 
ointed by Dr. Cullis. A week ago I could distinguish 
moving objects before me, but to-day I can see the 
people in this room, and the seats, and even the window 
sashes. I expect by another week to see clearly. 
Praise the Lord ! I am happy in His wondrous love. 



IO OTHER FAITH CURES. 

Two weeks ago I gave myself to Him, and He has 
blessed me both soul and body." 

January 18, 1883. 

Over forty were present this morning to claim God's 
promise for healing. Among these were persons suf- 
fering from rheumatism, paralysis, cancers, tumors, 
blindness, deafness, etc. A lady who had been trust- 
ing in her own righteousness was led to see that she 
stood upon a sandy foundation, without a sure and cer- 
tain hope of everlasting life, and that her only refuge 
and hope was in Him who gave His life for us. At once, 
by simple faith, she gave herself to Christ and accepted 
Him as her Saviour from sin and the healer of her 
body. 

One who had been a poor drunkard all his life, came 
and yielded himself to the Lord Jesus, promising by 
God's grace never again to touch the accursed thing. 
He was then prayed with, that the appetite for strong 
drink might be taken away, and that he might be filled 
with the Holy Ghost. 

Another who had been a slave to tobacco from his 
boyhood, gave himself to Christ, promising at once and 
forever to put it away. He was then prayed with that 
this desire might be removed by the power of God, so 
that he might become a fit temple for the Holy Ghost. 

Several testimonies were given. One of a marvel- 
lous deliverance from spinal disease, another from a 
cancer, another from consumption. In every case of 
healing the physical was accompanied with a great 
spiritual blessing and the name of Jesus was magnified. 



answers to prayer. ii 

February i, 1883. 

It is very cheering to witness the rapidly spreading 
interest on the subject of Faith Healing. This is 
indicated by the greater number of written requests for 
prayer sent in week after week, also by the increasing 
numbers of those who come personally from all parts of 
the country to prove the virtue there is in Jesus' name. 
Last Thursday there were forty-five present; to-day, 
fifty-five. But more encouraging than all is the fact that 
in all these meetings, while Christ has been held up as 
the Healer of the body, He has also been presented in 
the fulness of His power and love as a Saviour from sin. 
Week after week, souls have come into these meetings 
in spiritual darkness, and have gone away rejoicing in 
the glorious light of the Son of God. Many of God's 
dear children, who have not been living up to their 
privileges, have here found heart cleansing and perfect 
rest as well as healing of body. Several gave testi- 
monies to-day of what God had done for them in 
answer to prayer. One who had been blind for seven 
years (the same who gave testimony in a previous 
meeting, being perfectly blind the first time he came) 
said he could see quite clearly now. God gave him 
also spiritual sight to behold the Lamb of God which 
taketh away the sin of the world. Praise God from 
whom all blessings flow ! 

February 8, 1883. 

Dr. Cullis opened the meeting by reading and com- 
menting on the first ten verses of the twenty-eighth 



12 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

chapter of Acts, Paul's work of healing in the Island of 
Melita. 

A brother said that three weeks ago he came here in 
very great mental weakness, that for years he had 
suffered, sometimes not being able to sleep for nine 
nights in succession. Since trusting God for deliver- 
ance, he had been well in mind and body, and could 
now sleep soundly, and his heart was filled with love 
and praise to God. 

A minister said he had been in such a depressed 
state of mind that he was obliged to give up his work. 
His depression had settled down into a state of almost 
black despair. In this state he came to Boston. In 
answer to prayer, the cloud had lifted, his health was 
improving, and he could now joyfully offer praise to 
God for His goodness and for His wonderful works to 
the children of men. 

The one who had been blind for seven years, told 
how his sight was fully restored. 

Several other interesting testimonies were given 
which greatly strengthened the faith of all present. 
There were twenty-nine at the meeting. 

February 15, 1883. 

The meeting was opened by reading part of the four- 
teenth chapter of John. u If ye love me, keep my com- 
mandments." Not the ten simply, but also the two 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 1 3 

great ones, viz., " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God 
with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy 
mind and with all thy strength, and thou shalt love thy 
neighbor as thyself." Then He will manifest Himself 
unto us as He does not unto the world. He will 
make His abode with us. He is as able to build up as 
to purify the temple in which He delights to dwell. 
Now let all hindrances be removed, all sin be given up, 
all unbelief be put away, and yielding ourselves soul 
and body to God, let us claim His promise in Jesus, 
and go from this place healed, giving glory to God for 
victory. 

Every heart was filled with joy and praise to God as 
the brother who had been blind told us he could now 
read the finest print. Praise God from whom all 
blessings flow ! 

A lady who had greatly suffered from a cancer, told 
how she was rapidly improving since prayer had been 
offered, and that her spiritual life had been greatly 
quickened. 

A lady who came in spiritual darkness, after quite a 
struggle gave herself up to the Lord Jesus to be saved 
from her sins, and was then prayed for that she might 
be healed in body. 

Twenty-six were present this morning. 

February 22, 1883. 

Thirty-six were present this morning. The Doctor 
read Markv: 25-34, the healing of the woman with 



14 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

an issue of blood twelve years. While Jesus was on 
His way to the house of Jairus, the ruler of the syna- 
gogue, surrounded by a great multitude, He suddenly 
stopped, and asked, ' Who touched my clothes ? ' His 
disciples said unto Him, * Thou seest the multitude 
thronging Thee and sayest Thou, Who touched me ? ' 
The multitude thronged Him, but as soon as this woman 
touched Him, virtue went out from Him, and healed her. 
Jesus knows who will touch Him here, to-day. Not the 
touch of experiment, or of doubt, but the touch of faith. 
It is not the great amount of faith; it is simply true 
faith, whether great or small, that will bring virtue and 
healing to ourselves and glory to God. Who will thus 
touch Him now ? 

While the Doctor led in prayer, Jesus seemed to be 
standing in our midst, and saying, " According to your 
faith be it unto you." Several came, with thankful 
hearts, to tell what the Lord had done for them, in 
answer to prayer. Most remarkable instances of heal- 
ing were related. 

Mrs. Cullis spoke earnestly about our duty with re- 
gard to the laws of health, and especially in the matter 
of diet. Mothers and wives should be very careful to 
furnish simple yet wholesome food. We cannot expect 
God to heal us, and keep us well, if we live in a manner 
contrary to the laws of our being. 

March i, 1883. 

At the hour of opening about sixty were found wait- 
ing. The Scripture reading was Psalm ciii : 1-4. 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 1 5 

" Bless the Lord, O my soul ; and all that is within me 
bless His holy Name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and 
forget not all His benefits." "We should not forget 
to praise the Lord for all He has done for us. 'Who 
forgiveth all thine iniquities,' not simply this or that 
sin, but all our iniquities. It is not that He will for- 
give, but that He forgiveth now. It is the privilege of 
every one to know that his sins are all forgiven, all 
blotted out, and that the blood of Christ cleanseth him. 
' Who healeth all thy diseases ; ' no matter how many 
or how bad they are, He healeth all, and it is not that 
He will do it some future day, but now He healeth all 
thy diseases. Let not unbelief hinder His work in us, 
for He is the same yesterday and to-day and forever. 
' Who redeemeth thy life from destruction.' Hezekiah 
in his sickness prayed, and God added fifteen years 
unto his life. ' Who crowneth thee with loving kind- 
ness and tender mercies.' God crowns all His people 
here, not with fading crowns, but with something better, 
even with His own loving kindness and tender mercy. 
What cause for rejoicing we have here ! (1) Iniquities 
all forgiven ; (2) diseases all healed; (3) life re- 
deemed from destruction ; and (4) crowned with loving 
kindness and tender mercies. What complete and 
perfect salvation is provided for us I Let us trust 
Him to-day. If any of you know any sin in your 
heart or life, put it away at once, and trust God, first for 
the forgiveness of all your iniquities, and then for the 
healing of your bodies. Let Him forgive and heal and 
redeem and crown you now. Consecrate all to Him, — 
time, talents, means, body, soul, and spirit, and take 
Jesus as your all in all." 



1 6 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

A brother told how his wife, who was suffering with 
her eyes, was instantaneously restored, and made to 
rejoice with exceeding joy. 

A lady, who had suffered much from asthma, told 
how God had brought sweet relief and healing to her. 

A brother, who had suffered many years and had 
tried many physicians, said his disease was pronounced 
chronic and incurable. But in answer to prayer, he 
had obtained a glorious deliverance, and said that he 
thought himself one of the happiest men on earth. 

The brother who was blind told how his sight con- 
tinued good, and that very many had been convinced 
that Christ could heal to-day by listening to his experi- 
ence. The unbelief of many of his friends had been 
removed, while his own heart was filled with love and 
praise to God. 

March 8, 1883 

Forty-eight were present this morning. Dr. Cullis 
read James v : 13-15, showing that the spiritual bless- 
ing must not be separated from the physical, and how 
we may be 'hindered in claiming God's promise for 
healing by allowing any sin in heart or life. Nine- 
tenths of our sickness is the result of sin, and if we 
would have the sickness removed, we must first seek the 
forgiveness of and the cleansing from sin. Earnest 
prayer was then offered for all who were present and for 
those for whom requests had been sent in. 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 1 7 

A lady told of her remarkable recovery from pain 
and suffering by trusting the Great Physician. 

A young man related his experience of trial and 
triumph. He had suffered for years, even under the 
very best medical treatment, and had spent hundreds of 
dollars without finding any permanent relief. As his 
case grew worse, he was led to look to God for help. 
The 14th of last September, he came here with a dis- 
eased body to find that he had also a sin-sick soul. By 
repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus 
Christ, he received the healing of both soul and body, 
and is now rejoicing in the Lord, mighty to save. 
Other testimonies were given to what God had done in 
answer to the prayer of faith. 

March 15, 1S83. 

Between sixty and seventy were waiting this morning 
for the healing touch of the Great Physician. Dr. 
Cullis read the account of the opening of the eyes of 
the two blind men near Jericho, in Matthew xx : 30, 34. 
''And behold two blind men sitting by the wayside, 
when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, say- 
ing, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David ! 
and the multitude rebuked them, because they should 
hold their peace." "So it is to-day. The multitude 
will say, i Look not for the healing of your body, but for 
the salvation of your soul. This healing business is all 
excitement and fanaticism.' But when Jesus was on 
earth, multitudes followed Him for healing. The posi- 
tion we are to take is to believe the whole of God's 



16 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

Word. Not, Can He do this or that, but believing He 
can and will do just what He says. Before His ascen- 
sion He said to His disciples, ■ All power is given 
unto me in heaven and in earth/ and has He not the 
same power to-day ? When He sent forth His apostles 
into the world, He commanded them to preach the 
gospel and heal the sick. Oh, do let us be believing 
Christians ! No matter what may be our conditions or 
the circumstances in which we are placed, let us believe 
every word God has given us. Those two men were 
not silenced by the multitude, but they cried the more, 
saying, ' Have mercy upon us, O Lord, thou Son of 
David ! ' And Jesus stood still, and called them, and 
said, i What will ye that I shall do unto thee ? ' No 
soul ever called to Jesus without His standing still to 
listen. He will hear the faintest cry of those who come 
to Plim. These men asked that their eyes might be 
opened. They did not stop and say, We are too un- 
worthy to receive such a blessing from the Lord ; or 
that our sins are too great to expect anything from Him. 
They honored the Lord by believing that He was not 
only able, but willing, to save them. So Jesus had com- 
passion on them, and touched their eyes, and imme- 
diately their eyes received sight and they followed Him. 
Now, as we bow in prayer, let each one make a full 
surrender of all to God, body, soul, spirit, time, talents, 
property, our all, freely given up to Him ; then let us 
take Him at His word, and receive from His hand all 
He wants to give us." 

While prayer was being offered for each one separ- 
ately, several told how God had healed them, and filled 
them with the joy of His salvation. 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 19 

March 22, 1883. 

Over sixty were present. 

The lesson for to-day was from Matthew viii : 1-13. 
" Behold there came a leper, and worshipped Him, say- 
ing, Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean." 
" How many come to Jesus with an H/J 'If I were not 
so unworthy or so unclean, or if I could believe the prom- 
ise is for me.' Why this questioning, since Jesus gave 
His life for us ? He said to this leper, as He put forth 
His hand and touched him, c 7 will, be thou clean.' 
He came to Christ believing that He could heal him. 
Jesus honored his faith, and immediately his leprosy 
was cleansed. And Jesus saith unto him, * See thou 
tell no man.' His time to be offered up had not yet 
come. As many sought His life, and as His miracles 
stirred up their wrath, He told the man who was healed, 
Tell no man now. Afterward, He said to those whom 
He healed, ' Go home and tell thy friends how great 
things the Lord hath clone for thee and hath had com- 
passion on thee.' After His ascension they were to be 
witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth. To- 
day we are to tell others what God hath done for us. 
We gain new strength by confessing Christ. Don't be 
afraid to tell your friends what God has done for you. 
; And when Jesus was come into Capernaum, there 
came a centurion beseeching Him, and saying, ' Lord, 
my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously 
tormented.' And Jesus saith unto him, ' I will come 
and heal him.' There was no talk about it, no argu- 
ment ; He was ready to go at once. The centurion had 
great faith, and replied, ' Speak the word only, and my 



20 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

servant shall be healed/ Jesus said unto him, ' Go thy 
way, and as thou hast believed so be it done unto thee.' 
Everything we receive to-day is by faith. Doubt is 
from Satan. Belief is from God. A doubtful prayer 
will not receive anything from the Lord. It is only the 
prayer of faith that saves the sick and that brings every 
blessing from God. Many say, If Jesus were here Him- 
self, and I could speak to Him, I would believe ; but we 
are more favored than if Jesus were on earth in bodily 
presence. He said to His disciples, ' It is expedient 
for you that I go away, for if I go away I will send the 
Comforter to you.' The Lord is here and everywhere 
now in spirit, and it is His real presence and His word 
to each of us, 'As thou hast believed so be it done unto 
thee.' If there be any doubt or questioning in your 
heart, give it up at once. Then you will be able to say, 
The Lord Jesus has healed me." 

Several testimonies to God's power to heal in answer 
to prayer were given. One young lady gave herself to 
the Lord Jesus, and was made to rejoice in Him " who 
forgiveth all our iniquities." Praise God ! 

March 29, 1883. 

There were fifty present to-day. 

The lesson read by the Doctor was from Mark, elev- 
enth chapter, commencing at the twenty-second verse : 
" And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in 
God. For verily I say unto you that whosoever shall say 
unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast 
into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall 
believe that those things which he saith shall come to 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 21 

pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith" " An old lady 
prayed at night that a hill behind her house might be 
removed ; but, finding it there in the morning, she said, 
\ Just as I expected.' So it is with many to-day. 
They pray for healing, but afterwards find themselves 
no better, and they say, c Just as I expected.' Prayer 
is simply an experiment, and not a matter of faith 
with them. Jesus says, ' Therefore I say unto you 
what things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that 
ye receive them, and ye shall have them.' I get letters 
from some, saying, ' I am no better. Your prayers 
have not removed my difficulty,' as though I could 
save them. It is the Lord Jesus who saves, and He 
saves only those who fully trust Him, — those who 
claim by faith the work as done. 

"'Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evi- 
dence of things not seen.' I am praying for $10,000 
to fit up this next building. As yet I have not $100 of 
it. I propose to employ an architect to draw up the 
plans, and I am going on with my plans as though I 
had the amount, but shall not build until the money 
comes. Some will say that it is all folly. I fully ex- 
pect the Lord Jesus to honor His own word. He says, 
' Believe that ye receive and ye shall have.' There 
are many i shalls ' in God's word, and I am thankful 
for them. His covenant is an everlasting covenant 
that cannot be changed or broken. I would not give 
up these promises for all the world. I would far rather 
live on one meal a clay. I would rather go in rags than 
give up my faith in God's word. O, let us take Jesus 
at His word, and claim just what He has promised. A 
lady here stated that there were five or six of her 



22 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

friends who said if she were healed they would believe 
and give their hearts to Christ. There are people who 
would not believe if Moses rose from the dead. I 
think every one should give themselves to Christ, be- 
cause He has loved them and given His life for them. 
We should never make any terms or conditions of our 



A minister stated that for thirty years he had been a 
sufferer, and for years had not been able to preach. 
Two weeks ago, he was prayed with by the Doctor, and 
could say that now he was a new man. He had 
received a rich blessing for both body and soul. He 
said, " We come to God and believe for spiritual bless- 
ings, and why not for physical, also ? v His heart was 
filled with gladness and praise to God for this display 
of His marvellous power. 

A lady said she came, a week ago, with cancer in the 
mouth. Since being prayed with, there has been a 
most decided change for the better. The doctor who 
had been attending her looked at it, and was amazed. 
He could not understand it, but she told him that she 
was trusting the Lord to heal her, and that was the 
secret of her improvement. She said she could not 
help saying, " Praise the Lord ! " all the time. 

A young man, who brought a friend to be prayed 
with, told how God wondrously restored him, a year 
ago, in answer to prayer. 

Other interesting testimonies were given. 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER, 23 



CHAPTER II. 

TO prove that Faith Cures are no new thing, a friend 
sent me the other day a copy of the " Boston 
Almanac for the year of our Lord 1788, and the 
twelfth of America's Independence." The Almanac 
contains the following account, which I copied and 
here insert. And it will be noticed that the American 
Almanac copied the account from an English 
Almanac, so that the cure must have been wrought 
even earlier than the year 1788. 

The following account of a most singular cure, the 
truth of which is so well attested as to put it beyond 
a doubt, is copied from an old London magazine of the 
year 1788 : — 

" God in all ages hath not left himself without a 
testimony of his eternal power and Godhead, as will 
appear in the following narrative : A church at Tiver- 
ton, in the West, being congregated together, and 
having one among them whom they designed for their 
pastor, a letter was sent by the consent or order of 
them, to a church in Colchester for the dismission of a 
member their intended pastor ; and likewise a clause in 
the letter for directions in the ordination, whether it was 
judged necessary to lay on hands. The aforesaid church 
in Colchester having their pastor absent, I was desired 



24 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

to answer the aforesaid letter, and when I came to 
answer that point as to ordination, I wrote as follows, 
viz. : — 

a ' Laying on of hands being an insignificant thing, 
only to denote the person ordained, it having no power 
to convey any ministerial gifts to the person so 
ordained, we rather judge it to be a primitive cere- 
mony, such as the anointing of the sick, and the 
washing of the feet, which ceased with the lives of the 
Apostles, and with the extraordinary gifts of healing.' 

"This letter, thus written, was brought to the church 
for approbation, and to be subscribed by them ; but 
some rejected it, and replied that they believed 
anointing with oil, and also laying on of hands, were 
ordinances in the' church, and ought still to be 
preached ; which I opposed and quoted the authors I 
had read against it; but to no purpose, for the letter 
they would not sign, and another was written according 
to their own minds. But from that time I was left in 
great darkness of soul, so that I oftentimes questioned 
my interest in Christ Jesus, and I kept many days of 
fasting and prayer for the return of the light of God's 
countenance; and thus I continued for the space of 
two months, till at length, being at St. Edmund's Bury, 
in Suffolk, towards the latter end of December, I was 
desired to pray with a gentleman and woman, who had 
been long afflicted ; and whilst I was at prayer, I was 
much in the dark and thought I had more need to pray 
for myself than others, which I did in these words : 
'Why hast Thou left me, O Lord, why hast Thou hid 
Thy face from me ? Return, return, O Lord, and lift 
up the light of Thy countenance upon me.' To which 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 2$ 

request I was immediately answered by thought of 
mind, that I had denied his ordinances, viz., anoint- 
ing, and laying on of hands. I replied again in my 
own soul, ' Lord, if I did know they were ordinances, I 
would not willingly deny them, nor no other.' So then 
I was convinced that the ordinance of laying on of 
hands and anointing with oil were continued in the 
church ; and if I practised them the Lord would own 
them. I then, upon this resolve of mind, had my 
desires granted, for the Lord did lift up the light of 
his countenance upon me, and my prayer was turned 
into praises ; and when I had concluded my prayer 
(the gentlewoman being lame of a dead palsy on one 
side), I said to her : — 

(i ' Mistress, I believe if you were anointed in the 
name of the Lord, that your limbs would be restored 
for I am convinced most strangely, of that which I 
opposed not long since with the greatest vigor.' She 
told me she could not submit to it, neither did she be- 
lieve it. I used some arguments with her, but to no 
purpose. 

" So that day I returned to Colchester, and going to 
one, Mrs. Mary Munnings, a widow who kept a 
milliner's shop near the market, I told her how I had 
been convinced of the ordinance of anointing with oil ; 
and further told her, I firmly did believe that God would 
own his own ordinances. She was much surprised, 
knowing how vigorously I had opposed it but a short 
time before ; and supposing it to be a fancy, she asked, 
whether I had any faith in the application of it to her 
daughter, who was a cripple, as will plainly appear by 
,this narrative? I told her yes, I had; and asked her 



26 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

whether she believed it to be an ordinance ? She said, 
she did. 

"Then I looked into the room where her aforesaid 
daughter sat, and said, ' Child ! do you believe that the 
Lord can make you whole ? - 

i( She replied, ( The Lord's hand is not shortened that 
it cannot save, neither is His ear heavy that He cannot 
hear.' 

" ' Well/ I replied, ' if you believe His ability, I believe 
His willingness/ 

"Then her mother asked me whether I would please 
to administer the ordinance to her ? I told her I would, 
but this being the last day of the week, I could not 
now, because of my study. So I left them, and on the 
second day of the next week, being to expound, 
after my wonted custom, the aforesaid Mrs. Munnings, 
being there, she thought it the most proper time to 
administer the ordinance to her daughter, while I was 
affected with the Spirit and grace of God. 

" According to her request, I went with her to her 
house ; and she sent her maid for a pennyworth of oil, 
and told me she hoped I would be as good as my 
word, to anoint her daughter. I told her a bad 
promise was better broken than kept, but if I could 
find a warrant in the Word of God I would. Calling for 
a Bible, I desired not to be interrupted, and searched 
from one end to the other for the space of three hours, 
viz., from nine to twelve, in which time I had collected 
most places of Scripture, both for the ordinance, and 
for the encouragement of faith, as James v : 14, Mark 
vi: 13, Mark xi : 24, which last I called a seal to my 



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commission. Having done I closed up the Bible, and 
said to the mother and to the other sister present : — 

" ' I have not only found a commission, but a seal 
thereto.' 

" So I addressed myself to the ordinance in the 
manner following : First I went to prayers, that God 
would raise our faith in the ordinance, and that also 
we might lay hold on the promise ; then I set apart 
the oil from common to special use, by prayer. 

"Then I anointed her in the name of the Lord 
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, on the place grieved, three 
times, according to the number of the persons of the 
Trinity ; but note, when I came to anoint her ankle, I 
was astonished, for her lameness was in manner follow- 
ing : Her hip-bone was sprung up under her arm ; her 
leg was crooked and her ankle sprung out of its place, 
so that on the inside none was to be seen, her left foot 
in the form of a stump, beside her other bodily infirmi- 
ties for the want of her limbs. Her mother saith she 
knows not whether she was born so or not, for she just 
perceived it when she was in her leading-strings, and she 
being nigh sixteen years of age, many did her mother 
make use of for help but to no purpose, she still growing 
worse and worse. At length she made an application 
to an eminent surgeon, who told her he would not take 
her money, for no man in the world could help her, 
nor reduce the bones into their proper places, the 
sinews being shrunk and gathered under her ham as big 
as a man's hand, and the whole side so weak that she 
could not carry a four-pound weight on that side. 

"When I saw her leg so deformed, for I never saw it 
before, my countenance fell, and I said within myself, 



28 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

' Sure, I am worse than a madman, — can crooked bones 
be made straight ? and with that such a trembling 
seized me that I could not stay my hand (but with the 
help of the other) to anoint her, and while I was in 
the confusion this text dropped into my mind, 
6 Though you believe not, yet he abides faithful and 
cannot deny Himself/ 

" So, as soon as I had anointed her, I fell on my 
knees, as it were in an agony, and said these words : — 

" ' Lord, I have done my part, I have gone to the 
outside of my commission ; Lord, I leave the work in 
Thy hands to be accomplished ! } 

" And while I was thus saying, I fell as it were into 
an ecstasy, and behold as it were the heavens open, 
and Christ at the Father's right hand presenting a 
petition. Then I cried out, * Lord, that is our petition, 
and we wait for an answer.' The mother and sister 
wondered at the expression ; but as soon as I had so 
said, I had these words brought to me, 'Be it unto you 
according to your faith.' I replied, ' I believe she shall 
be made whole.' And then I had this reply, I will, she 
shall be made whole, and then, before I came off my 
knees I praised God for making her whole ; and when 
I had concluded, I got up and walked some turns round 
the room ; and then sat down, and fixing my eyes upon 
her, said : — 

" ' Child, the Lord hath made thee whole/ 

" Her mother replied, ' Sir, what, do you mean to say 
so before you know ? ' — I replied, * Unbelief stand by ! 
Child, the Lord hath made thee whole. Her mother 
replied as before ; at which I replied the third time, 
with greater earnestness than before, — 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 29 

" ' Crnld, the Lord hath made thee whole.' Then she 
got up, and said, — 

" What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits ! 
For while you pronounced me whole the second time, 
my bones snapped without the least pain, and are come 
into their places.' 

"And to our astonishment we beheld her straight and 
whole, and a full hand's-breadth taller than before. So 
she put forth her foot, showed us her ankle, and all was 
well ; her bodily infirmities also removed, and her soul, 
with ours, filled with the loving-kindness of the Lord, 
so that we knew not how to contain ourselves. 

" ' Come/ said I to her mother and sister, ' let us sing 
the praises of the Lord.' 

"' No,' said her mother, 'the neighbors will hear us. 
It being but three o'clock last New Year's day, in the 
morning/ I replied : — 

" ' If we hold our peace, the stones in the street will 
cry against us.' So we sung extempore and concluded 
the morning with blessing and praising God. 

" In the morning her mother said, ' Go, see whether 
your brother does not cry.' 

" She went upstairs and fetched him down, he being 
a lusty child near five years old. So the day following, 
when some members of the church were called together, 
was spent in praising God. 

' ' Signed at our church meeting ; We whose names are 
after written (members of the same society) do attest 
to the truth hereof, and know of no other means that 
have been used, but that God hath showed his great 
power herein — Thomas Power, Nathaniel Hicks, 
John Blackfill, Thomas Pettly, Daniel Hart, Robert 



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Harris, Benjamin Smith, William Rawlings, John Maxey, 
Samuel Todd, John Browne, Joseph Ellingsford, Francis 
Howard, Philip Stowars, Jeremiah Baxter." 

The above narrative is signed and sworn to by a 
great number more, among whom is a surgeon who had 
examined and attended the girl. 

Dr. Cullis: — 

I feel I ought to acknowledge what the Lord has 
done for me in answer to your prayers. Immediately 
after leaving the office in company with Miss L., the 
other day, I felt I ought to have spoken of it. It seems 
so ungrateful to Him not to do so. I feel well, can eat 
anything I wish, also my head is clear, a natural conse- 
quence now that the indigestion is gone. I mean to 
trust Jesus now to keep me well. 

Please ask the Lord that I may be strengthened to 
do so, also that I may claim the Baptism of the Spirit as 
a present experience. And to Him be all the glory. 

Truly yours, 

Edna N. C. 

Natick, Mass., February 21, 1883. 
Dear Doctor Cullis : — 

I do desire to return thanks to God for what he has 
done for me. When about seven years of age I was 
very sick with scarlet fever, and it left me with an ab- 
scess on my throat, which healed after a number of 
weeks, but left my system in a very bad condition. I 
was never well afterwards. When twelve years of age 
I sprained my left ankle, and after being lame for sev- 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 3 I 

eral months, there came a white swelling on it which 
my physician pronounced a very bad case of bone 
scrofula. Pieces of bone worked out of it, eaten to a 
honey-comb. After three years it healed, only to go to 
the other ankle, and that had seven running sores on it 
all at the same time. I suffered extremely with it for 
months, being unable to sit up some of the time, and 
for six years I depended on my crutches to get about in 
summer time, as it was always worse in warm weather. 
I consulted doctor after doctor, but received no help. 
As my ankle grew better, my general health failed me. 
Having heart trouble, I had poor spells which left me 
very weak, and they increased upon me in the ten years 
from two or three in a year to once a week. Being 
obliged to work for a living, I took up dress-making 
and, my back being weak, I used to sit in misery and 
sew all day. 

Then I had ulcerated sore throat, five or six times 
during the winter months for seven years, which would 
confine me to my bed for a week or two, when I would 
not be able to resume my work for two or three weeks. 

With these and several other complaints I just lived 
and that was all. I was under the doctor's care, and tak- 
ing medicine from three to thirteen times a day all the 
time for eighteen years. During that time I consulted 
fourteen different physicians, all saying about the same 
thing, that I could not live without medicine, and ought 
to be thankful that I could keep about by taking it. But 
I was like the woman the Bible tells us about, " I spent 
nearly all my living on physicians, and was nothing 
bettered, but rather grew worse." At last I got so I 
could work only three or four days in a week. I did not 



32 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

know what I was going to do. But the dear Lord came 
to my rescue. Hearing of Faith Cures, and knowing 
that a dear friend of mine had just been healed by faith, 
I resolved to trust the Lord, and I gave up all earthly 
physicians and medicines and gave myself into the 
hands of the great Physician to be healed, claiming the 
promise in James, in obedience to Christ's command 
to " Call upon the elders of the church and let them 
pray for you." Not knowing any in my own church 
who thus believed, I went to Boston to see you the 17 th 
of January, 1881. After prayer, I walked out of the 
office (with the friend that went with me) and walked 
quite a long distance, neither of us speaking a word. 
At last she asked me what I was thinking about. I re- 
plied, "This is the Lord's doings and marvellous in our 
eyes." 

I had no evidence in my body that I was healed, but 
a great blessing came to my soul, and I took the Lord 
at His word that I was healed. This was Monday, and 
Wednesday I came home and went to work. I had 
strength given me for all I was called upon to do, and I 
never have had a single attack of that heart trouble, 
although I have had many attacks from Satan. He fol- 
lowed me around all the time, telling me I had better 
not say much about it, I might not hold out, but I 
met him as did my Saviour, crying out, "Get thee 
behind me, Satan." It is written, " Nothing is impos- 
sible with God," and, " All things are possible to him 
that believeth." I have had two very slight attacks of 
sore throat, but I went to the Lord and He cured me 
without medicine, and I found it, "According to your 
faith be it unto you." 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 33 

I have been better the past two years than ever be- 
fore since I can remember. My friends all exclaim, 
" How well you look !" I have lived all these two years 
without a particle of medicine of any kind. 
I am well, thank God. 

Yours very truly, 

Rilla M. W. 

C ■ May 12, 1882. 

Dr. Charles Cullis. 

Dear Brother, — I write this, desiring to record 
my gratitude to my dear Saviour for His great mercy 
in making what I now believe is a perfect cure of an 
infirmity and weakness that for many years I despaired 
of ever being delivered from. It has been a severe 
affliction to me for some thirty years ; has often made 
life almost unendurable, and I have at times almost 
been tempted to suicide, to escape the miseries it 
brought to my mind and body. 

About four years ago (viz. March 1878), I called on 
you, desiring that you would pray for me, for a cure, 
and stated my case to you, and that I had tried many 
physicians, but in vain ; for although some had given 
me temporary relief, the old trouble was sure to return, 
and every time pulling me down, mentally and physi- 
cally, and I believed there was no human power or 
remedy that would cure me, or be of much benefit to 
me. I believed that God would hear your prayer and 
our united prayer (Matt, xviii. 19). 

After joining with you in prayer, my faith seemed to 
cling to Jesus for a cure. I abandoned the use of all 
medicines, and for some months I felt entirely cured of 



34 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

my infirmity, and then, through indiscretion, I had a 
return of my old trouble. My faith seemed to give 
way, and I became very much discouraged, and had 
many returns of my trouble. I came to see you, and 
again you prayed for me. My faith seemed to again 
take hold of God and His promise (James v. 14, 15) 
and for some months I considered myself well, but 
again through hastiness, and, I fear, sin, my faith gave 
way, and I had a recurrence of my old difficulty. Again 
I called on you, as well as wrote to you, still believing 
that Jesus was able and willing to forgive my sin and 
make me whole. And now, after a renewed consecra- 
tion, and many prayers for the grace of faith, I believe 
Jesus has wrought a perfect cure. 

I have waited until I could testify to a permanent cure, 
and for some weeks past I have been praying for God 
to guide me in giving my testimony, and I believe He 
would have me now declare what He has done for me. 
With a realization that Jesus has wrought in me a per- 
fect cure, comes a stronger desire than ever before, that 
I may be entirely consecrated to God, and that my re- 
newed powers shall be devoted to Him. 

I realize the abiding presence of Jesus in a fuller sense 
than ever before in my Christian experience. Bless the 
Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me bless His 
holy name ! D. M. 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 35 

HEALED OF SPINAL DISEASE AFTER THIRTY-TWO 
AND A HALF YEARS OF GREAT SUFFERING. 

Bolton, June 19, 1883. 
Dear Dr. Cullis : — 

For the encouragement of others I will send in my 
testimony of healing. 

It has been a gradual work going on for over four 
years, yet I kept the Faith that " the work which His 
goodness began, the arm of His strength would com- 
plete," which has been verified. 

You will remember that I came to your meeting for 
healing May 10, asking to be made whole. The 
prayer was answered, and to God be all the praise and 
glory, and as an evidence of the Lord's healing and 
sustaining power I have been through the whole nine 
days of a convention, attending nearly all the meetings, 
and came out strengthened physically and spiritually, 
glorifying the Lord for it all. 

With a heart full of praise and thanksgiving, 

Yours in the love of Jesus, 

M. C. B., Hudson, Mass. 

25 William Street, Lynn, Mass. 

I have suffered with blindness for seven years, at 
times being totally blind, at others being able to dis- 
tinguish objects. Each year the disease has grown 
worse, in spite of all attempts made by the most skilful 
oculists to check it. 

During the summer of '82, or more properly for 
three or four weeks of that time, I could get about very 
nicely, but could see nothing distinctly. All sight 



36 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

gradually faded, and in October of that year I could 
distinguish nothing; it seemed one long night. Oh! 
how I longed for the morning, yet hopelessly, believing 
it would never come. 

My reason for such a belief was based upon the fact 
that I had been to physicians who were reputably skil- 
ful in all diseases of the eye, but obtained no encourage- 
ment. My life was one of darkness and shadow, with 
not a ray of light to illumine the gloom. In December, 
a friend suggested that I be taken to Dr. Charles 
Cullis, of Boston. The idea was acted upon, and I 
became an attendant at the Faith-Healing meeting, 
for a period of seven weeks. 

During this time, my views of eternal love were 
undergoing a gradual change, until, from a thorough 
sceptic on all religious matters, I came to understand 
the system of salvation as taught in the New Testa- 
ment, and to trust God with a settled assurance of His 
love. The power of prayer was made manifest when I 
came home after the seventh visit to the Doctor. And 
here let me state that the remarkable patience which 
the Doctor evinced was more potent than logic in lead- 
ing me to trust and believe. A short time after being 
prayed for, I became quite sick, my eyelids were 
closed, and I had no desire to eat or drink for one 
week ; during that time my wife once raised one of my 
eyelids, and was horrified to find the eyeballs 
apparently dissolving, showing a bloody, jelly-like 
substance. But God's power was making itself mani- 
fest, and in six or seven days I opened my eyes, and 
could see plainly, whereas before I could not see my 
hand before my eyes. 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 37 

Ah, the joy of this opening ! my pen fails me in 
expression. There was no room for doubt. It was 
God's work, and I shall take pleasure in proving my 
statement to any doubter who will call at my residence, 
25 William St., Lynn, Mass. W. W. Bennet. 

April 5, 1883. 
Dr. Cullis. 

Dear Sir: For nearly ten years I have been troubled 
by the lapping of one of my ribs over my breastbone. 
I called at your office in October. You prayed with me ; 
in a very few moments after, I felt all the ribs in my 
body begin to move, as though they were being drawn 
back. This continued most of the time for three days, 
after that I no longer felt any movement of the bone, 
although it continued to move slowly, until at the close 
of two weeks it was fully restored to its proper place. 
I feel very thankful to God for all that He has done 
for me. I love Him, and I feel that I can trust Him to 
do this great work for me, since He has promised to 
heal all our diseases. 

May He still continue to bless you in your labors for 
Him is my prayer. 

Yours truly, 

Nellie W. D. 

Lowell, Mass., April 2, 1882. 
Dr. Cullis : — 

For fourteen years I have been troubled with neu- 
ralgia of the heart and had suffered a great deal. Last 
August, while at Old Orchard Beach, as you remember, 



38 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

I called to see you at your house, and since that time I 
have not had the least trouble with my heart, for which 
I feel very thankful. 

May the Lord bless you and your work. 

Very gratefully yours, 

Mrs. H. C. D. 

Vernon, Vt., January 18, 1883. 
Dear Dr. Cullis : — 

I think the Spirit of the Lord prompts me to write 
you to acknowledge what He has done for me, within 
and without. I believe the Father and Son have come 
into my heart to abide with me forever (John xiv. 23), 
and have rilled me with faith and the Holy Spirit in 
answer to your prayer of faith. Glory to God and the 
Lamb in the highest ! 

My peace is like a river, and is ever abiding. My 
joy is full. The nervous pain in my head, that had 
troubled me for several years, and was gradually in- 
creasing, was perfectly healed in the instant you prayed 
for me at your " Faith Cure," November 22, 1882. 
Praise God for this ! 

After I returned home, I was drawn out to pray for 
the straightening of my crooked spine, which had also 
much troubled me. The Lord heard my cry, and while 
in bed, the Spirit came upon me, and, without pain, 
greatly changed the curvature in my spine, so that it 
was observable to my family. I am expecting a perfect 
cure in this direction. He has also restored my eye- 
sight, so that I have abandoned the use of spectacles, 
and my voice for singing, which was much impaired, 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 39 

and has greatly helped my feet of chilblains, from which 
I have long suffered. 

I would like to send you a thank-offering, but have 
not the means as yet. Hope to, some time. 

Your brother in Christ, 

Geo. P. S. 

17 i i Gratz Street, Philadelphia, 

July 30, 1883. 
Dr. Cullis. 

Dear Sir, — For many years I suffered from ca- 
tarrh, dyspepsia, deafness, weakness, and, more re* 
cently, with bronchitis, and a form of asthma, the latter 
becoming quite serious in the spring of 1882. 

For these maladies I had used " many medicines," 
and sought relief from many doctors, without avail. 

About one year since, I laid aside all medicines, and 
began to trust in the„Lord as my Physician. 

Praise Him ! He loves us all, more than tongue can 
tell. 

You prayed for me at 13th and Arch Streets last 
winter ; and now I rejoice to tell you that since then I 
have not lost one night's sleep or one hour's rest from that 
much dreaded asthma, and of late I find the dyspepsia 
no longer troubles me ; and, moreover, I have been 
brought into closer and more blessed communion with 
my Saviour. 

" Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His 
benefits." Yours gratefully, 

W. P. F. 



40 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

Wilmington, Vt., January i, 1883. 
Dr. Cullis : — 

Dear Brother, — You will not remember the writer, 
likely, who called on you the seventh or eighth of 
December, and was, in answer to your prayer, healed. 
I have been afflicted with neuralgia of the stomach, 
over four years, and for months at a time would be able 
to take but very little food, and that would be attended 
with great distress. I was distressed from eating a 
small piece of bread for my dinner when I entered your 
office, but, praise the Lord, I was freed from it as you 
prayed for me, and have been gaining in strength and 
flesh ever since. 

Your sister in Christ, 

Mrs. C. I. W. 

Portsmouth, N. H., August 20, 1882. 
Dear Dr. Cullis : — 

I have long felt it was due you to tell of my recovery 
from sickness through your prayers of faith to God, at 
Old Orchard, Me., during your meetings there in 1881. 

After a year of overwork and anxiety — my time being 
divided between my own home in Portsmouth and my 
old home thirty-six miles away — I was expecting a 
telegram which would summon me to my dear father's 
bedside, he having had apoplectic fits ; my mother 
sent a message for me. After three days he entered 
into rest, ripe in years and glory. One day while lift- 
ing him (his average weight being one hundred and 
eighty pounds) I received an injury across my chest, 
followed by hoarseness, then by a complete loss of 
voice, which, with the addition of a cold and the 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 4 1 

labor of breaking up the old home, utterly prostrated 
me. The day following our return home, Dr. D., 
said to be the best physician in our city, was called, 
and pronounced my trouble to be congestion of the 
lungs, and treated me for that ; but as weeks went by 
I did not improve, but a heavy cough set in ; then 
the Doctor pronounced it passive congestion, at the 
same time telling my friends I was evidently in con- 
sumption, and would not last long. I suffered very 
much with tightness across the chest and labored 
breathing. My husband said, "You must let Dr. 
Cullis pray for you," and urged the matter so persist- 
ently, that I went to Old Orchard last year, and went 
into the Tuesday afternoon healing meeting. I re- 
member when my turn came, I felt such an earnest de- 
sire to be blest in spirit that I hardly thought of my 
body, and said to myself, If I cannot receive the bless- 
ing of the Holy Spirit, I care not for the healing of the 
body or for life. From that hour there was a marked 
change and I was speedily restored to health, so I 
could say, " I am healed." Many, the past year, have 
closely watched me, expecting the disease was but tem- 
porarily removed, but over one year has passed away, 
and never in my life have I been so well and strong 
as I have been the past year, and am now. Praise the 
Lord, for he is worthy ! 

Yours in Him, 

Mrs. J. G. H. 



42 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

Charleston, S. C, January 4, 1884. 
Dr. Cullis : — 

Dear Sir, — I esteem it a duty and blessed privilege 
to inform you it is my belief, and also that of my 
friends, that the Lord has healed me of heart disease 
in answer to your prayers, and in accordance with His 
blessed promise which never faileth. My husband and 
I called at your office, early last spring, to request your 
prayers for me, as I had been troubled with heart dis- 
ease for twelve years and had become much reduced 
in strength, and had suffered greatly through last 
winter. I feel that I can never praise the Lord suffi- 
ciently for His goodness. I have never felt the most 
distressing symptoms since that time. My improve- 
ment was immediate and rapid. I cannot say that I 
now feel a symptom of my old malady. I am starting 
on a voyage, in my husband's vessel, to Valencia, 
Spain, and to Sicily. I feel no hesitation about going, 
on account of my health, although before my improve- 
ment I would not have been able to go, even if I had 
had the courage to attempt it. Coming out to Charles- 
ton from Maine, although I was quite seasick, my heart 
was not affected by it in the least, which was so great 
. a change from what I once would have suffered that it 
gave a new impulse to my faith. 

Yours gratefully, Mrs. N. W. T. 

Montreal, August 10, 1882. 
For four years I was obliged to give up all ordinary 
duties, from a complication of chronic difficulties which 
had been increasing for years. During this time, pray- 
ing God to bless the means, I faithfully endeavored to 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 43 

recover health by simple food, early hours, and fresh 
air. I had that great advantage to a sick person, a 
heart at peace with God and man, as well as a good 
hope of being well by and by. At the end of the fourth 
year, however, the truth forced itself upon me that all 
my care only alleviated my sufferings, and was not 
actually curing me at all. About this time a friend was 
healed in answer to prayer. She earnestly begged me 
to "claim healing." an expression which then seemed 
wrong to me. She added, " I will not leave off praying 
for you till you do." This set me to reading book after 
book on faith-healing in connection with the Bible. 
The subject opened wonderfully, so that it became a 
matter of astonishment that I had ever presumed to 
judge of this matter without careful examination. 

After earnest prayer, I decided to go to Dr. Cullis, 
for it is plainly stated in i Corinthians, xii : 9, that 
some have the gift of healing. 

Dr. Cullis asked me if I could trust the Lord to keep 
His promise in James "115. After hesitation, I re- 
plied that I could. He then touched my forehead with 
oil, and offered a very short prayer. I felt as though 
Jesus was there, and said only, " Lord, here am I." 
All my responsibility seemed now at an end. Dr. 
Cullis then said, " You must consider yourself healed, 
because God always keeps His promises.' 9 My mind 
returning for the moment to the old rationalistic chan- 
nels which had always placed faith-cures among psy- 
chological effects, I replied, '• Well, my symptoms are 
not of the kind that can be imagined gone.'^ So weak 
was my faith that I was surprised when he answered. 
u Let me hear from you in two or three days." I rather 



44 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

feared I should have to hold on to the promise for an 
indefinite period ; nevertheless, I returned home happy 
and relieved, and the good God who cured the Israel- 
ites because they looked at the brazen serpent, had 
also pity on me, and manifested His power to me that 
evening and at intervals ever since. I think it was 
either the third or fourth day after, that I was able to 
take a long walk, which seemed a wonderful exploit, 
and came home again, not to suffer, but to thank God, 
my Saviour, who had evidently heard my prayers and 
"was healing me. From that time, now four months 
since, I have been able to go about like other people. 

This experience has been precious to me, for through 
it, the keeping power of Christ has been very clearly 
revealed to me ; and resting my all, hour by hour, upon 
His faithfulness, my heart is full of joy. Before this, I 
had no idea that the Holy Spirit of God would mani- 
fest himself to the bodily sense, having tried to ex- 
plain away all that I had read on this subject. 

S. G. D. 

Providence, R. I., January 29, 1883. 
Dear Dr. Cullis : — 

I am desirous of giving you a brief history of my 
life the past fourteen years, that you may fully realize 
what the dear Lord has done for me, and that your 
prayers have not been in vain. 

In January, 1868, 1 was brought very low by disease, 
one illness following another, until my friends de- 
spaired of my ever rallying again. I had been in 
poor health for years previous to that time, but pos- 
sessing a strong will (after months of suffering) I be- 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 45 

gan to gain a little. My physician told my friends he 
had never known a person whose bodily and nervous 
strength was so completely exhausted as mine. I was 
severely afflicted with a uterine trouble and other 
chronic diseases ; in fact, it seemed to me my whole 
system was diseased, and many times I would gladly 
have lain down the burden of this life and sought 
a peaceful rest with my Saviour. In May, 187 1, 
while under electrical treatment, my eyes became 
affected, and for many weeks I was in a dark room and 
have been many times since. When I tried to use 
them, I could not confine them to any object but a few 
moments at a time, without suffering. I could not 
read, write, or sew, except a few weeks at one time, 
while under the treatment of an oculist. It was only 
a short time, for that, like all other attempts, failed. 
The oculist told my friends that every attempt at 
opening my eyes was a strain upon my whole nervous 
system. The best medical advice was procured in 
Providence and elsewhere, as many were deeply in- 
terested in my case. They left no means untried to 
secure my recovery. I had great faith in each and all 
of my physicians, giving each a trial of one or more 
years. By their advice I went to the mountains, to the 
seaside, to the country, season after season, but failed 
to find the health I sought. During the winter of 1878 
I gave my heart to God. I had for years been praying 
that I might become a Christian, and often thought if 
I could only go to church, I should be one. I tried 
many times to go, but every time I went I would be so 
prostrated that I did not venture to go again for 
months. The dear Lord knew I could not and so 



46 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

he came to me one night in my bed, and saved my 
soul. When I arose there was such a change it 
seemed as though I was born into a new world. Not 
being able to relate my experience before the church, I 
was always ready and willing to tell it to my friends as 
they came to see me. After years of repeated trials 
with physicians without success, it still seemed I had 
something to hope for, until the summer of '82 when 
I felt that no power on earth could help me, and every 
earthly hope was gone. I was willing to give myself 
into God's hands to do with me as he saw best, to heal 
me o'r to give me patience to suffer as long as I lived. 
My great desire, however, was to work for my Master ; 
I felt there was a little corner in His vineyard that I 
might fill. At this time (September 14) I called on 
you to pray for me, and returned home very much ex- 
hausted. A still, small voice came to me that evening, 
saying, " You shall be healed." I was startled at this. 
Then the tempter came, saying, " You don't know it." 
I did not at first understand either ; but after a time 
I said to the tempter, (remembering what the dear 
sister that has charge of the Repository had told me 
that day, how she was tempted after she was healed,) 
"I do know it, it is God's voice and I am going to be 
healed." And it came to me our Saviour was tempted 
forty days and forty nights in the wilderness. He had 
only His Father's promise, and if I am not willing to be 
tempted I am not worthy to be healed. I told my 
friends the Lord w r as going to heal me. They did not 
believe it, but this did not weaken my faith in the Great 
Physician. I had many times said during these long 
years of illness, O Lord, take from me everything 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 4/ 

but give me my health and the use of my eyes, and I 
will be Satisfied ! 

The morning of my promise, my testing began. Alr~ 
the promises I had made to my God were brought up 
before me, and my proud heart laid bare ; one thing after 
another I was called to give up. But I gave up all, and 
the blessings I received were overpowering ; my prayer 
was, " O Lord, don't heal me until I am as humble as 
I should be ! I want a pure and holy heart, I want that 
perfect love." When my physician came I dismissed 
him, and again the same still voice came to me saying, 
" It is finished." Following this I had days of lessons. 
My first lesson was that of trusting, simply trusting God. 
My second lesson was patience. For four days I was 
fearfully tempted, but the dear Lord was good to me 
and gave me the twenty-third Psalm, and other passages 
of Scripture in which I found great comfort. In four 
weeks from the time I received the promise I was 
healed. Instantaneously my strength came, I felt a 
renewal of my whole system, praise God ! I intended 
to tell my husband, but just before the time for him to 
come I began to suffer pain again, I could not tell him, 
I grew worse, I suffered excruciating pains in my head 
and body that night and continued to suffer for weeks, 
then came my fourth lesson, "Watch and pray, lest ye 
fall into temptation." I felt I needed help, and again 
called on you. I claimed the promise from that time, and 
soon began to have the assurance that my eyes were 
well ; I opened my Bible and read over seventy verses. 
I was a happy woman, but after two days the tempter 
came again, and for two days my eyes pained me ter- 
ribly. I know I am healed, and that God will take care 



48 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

of me ; I will trust Him and praise Him for the mighty 
work He has performed in me. Friends and strangers 
come to me to hear of this wonderful all-healing power 
that comes from on high. It is hard for them to believe, 
but they say, "Your countenance is greatly improved," 
and when they hear my experience and see me read, 
write, and sew, and drink water, and sit up all day — 
which I have not been able to do one day of my life for 
nearly fourteen years — they say, " I must believe it, but 
it is wonderful. " I will trust the Great Physician and 
will praise Him ever more. 

Yours in Christ, Mrs. H. C. S. 

Grove Hall, Boston, March 4, 1884. 
Dear Dr. Cullis : — 

I would like to add my testimony to others, of what 
great things the Lord has done for me in answer to the 
"prayer of faith." For seven years I was an invalid, 
afflicted with spinal disease, chronic inflammation of the 
stomach, with all the attending weaknesses, and finally 
a lung difficulty, — all of which seemed to baffle the 
skill of every physician who undertook my case. Some 
of them succeeded, however, in relieving me, so that for 
the time being I could be around my room, and 
occasionally I ventured to do some light work, but the 
least over-exertion, and if I ate any but the most care- 
fully prepared food, I was again prostrated, and perhaps 
for weeks confined to my bed. My friends despaired of 
my recovery. I had heard of faith cures, and some- 
times read testimonies of those who had been healed, 
and often wished I might know God's will concern- 
ing myself. After entering the Consumptive's Home, 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 49 

I soon learned, with many other deep and holy lessons, 
that the promise given m James v: 14, 15, was for all 
God's children — that it was a finished work — Him- 
self took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses. I 
took it upon the same ground as I did forgiveness 
of sins, and saw that if He would be faithful and just to 
forgive us our sins, He would also be faithful in re- 
storing our health. I had first to believe without a doubt 
that I was His child. "Beloved, if our heart condemn 
us not, then have we confidence toward God, and what- 
soever we ask we receive of Him, because we keep His 
commandments, and do those things that are pleasing 
in His sight. And he that keepeth His command- 
ments dwellelh in him. . . . And hereby we know 
that He abideth in us, by the Spirit which He hath given 
us." I shall never be able to express the joy it gave 
me when these precious truths dawned upon my mind, 
and I felt that I was indeed a child of God, because I 
loved to obey him. Where I once hoped and trusted, 
now, I knew I was a Christian, and as such had a right 
to all the gifts my Father had promised. After prayer 
was offered for me I felt no better for a number of 
days, but believed I was healed and all disease stayed, 
because God said so, and acted accordingly. With my 
form still bent with weakness, and my trembling limbs 
hardly able to bear me up, I stepped out upon the 
promise, which seemingly was all a void, — but I found 
the Rock beneath as the step of faith always will. 
Strength came as / advanced to take it, and in a very 
short time I felt like one unfettered. I could walk quite 
naturally, my cough grew less and less, I soon com- 
menced working, and from then until now (fourteen 



50 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

months) have never given up a day, or taken a drop of 
medicine. I was tried and tested, as all are, and if I 
had gone by my feelings, or looked to the experiences 
of others instead of God's Word, I should certainly 
have failed. As a crowning test I took a severe cold, 
then came the question, "Why did you take this cold 
upon your lungs if they were healed ? " But this trial 
proved the work done, and instead of making me sick 
in bed, as previous colds had done, I endured it as any 
well person would, and went right along with my work. 
Then it seemed to be illustrated to my mind in this way, 
— we have often heard it said of those who are sick 
with fever that the disease has reached its crisis and all 
danger is past, — but the patient does not realize this, 
and even convalescents after they are able to be about 
the house have what seems to them a return of the 
fever, but it is not the disease. So they go on grad- 
ually gaining their strength, however much fhey are 
tried and discouraged, and think they never shall be 
strong again. 

Oh, that Christians everywhere might see the privilege 
they have in their risen Lord, and accept Him as a 
physician for their body as well as their soul ! How 
my heart praises him, as I write these lines, for all He 
has done for me, and that I have learned to know him 
as a complete Saviour ! 

Yours in Him, 

Mrs. M. M, Whitney. 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 5 I 

Salem Street, Maiden, Mass., May 7, 1883. 
Before speaking of the painful days I feel that I 
must say, — 

"Glory to Thee, who will not let us smother 

Ourselves in sin ; 
Sending pain's messengers fast on each other, 

Us hence to win ; 
Praise for the scourging under which we languish, 

So torn, so sore, 
And give us strength, if yet uncleansed by anguish 

To welcome more." 

For years I have been a sufferer, having first spinal 
disease, then rheumatism, and for the last twelve, a 
complication of diseases for which I had often con- 
sulted physicians who afforded me temporary relief, 
without much permanent benefit. 

Last May, for the first time in my life, I had severe 
attacks of faintness, attended with a disagreeable, 
indescribable sensation at the stomach. When I 
attempted to lie down I had a severe pain in the right 
breast. I gave it little thought at first, being rarely 
free from a pain in some part of my body. But, my 
general health rapidly growing worse, I described my 
symptoms as best I could to two physicians, both of 
whom treated me in turn without any benefit being 
derived from the use of their remedies. In August I 
went to New Hampshire, hoping the change and rest 
might benefit me. At the expiration of a week the 
breast began to be so very painful by clay as well as by 
night, that I examined it and found a large bunch which 
I feared might be of a cancerous nature. 

I consulted an elderly physician of acknowledged 



52 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

skill, who said that he was not sure just what it might 
prove. He advised me to return home, go to Boston, 
consult some skilful physician and, " should it prove 
anything of a scirrhous nature, have it removed at once 
by the use of the knife." 

Having been much relieved of other difficulties by 
Dr. G., I went to him and was laughed at for my 
fears ; he pronouncing it simply a swollen gland. 

Much relieved, I continued according to his direc- 
tions for nearly three months, the pain growing worse 
rapidly ; at the last, he said he thought it must be 
caused by rheumatism, and gave me medicine for that 
without any effect. 

I next consulted Dr. C. She thought it might be an 
enlarged gland, " which would terminate in cancer if 
not soon cured." 

I thought this might be true, as, on removing my 
corsets, I was obliged to support the breast with my 
hand, it felt so heavy and so painful. 

I next went to Dr. S., of this place, for advice. 
He said he " should unhesitatingly pronounce it en- 
largement of the gland, were it not for the pain men- 
tioned. That," said he, " I frankly confess, I do not 
understand. But watch it closely, and if it should 
prove serious, which, I am happy to be able to say, I 
do not think it will, I would have it removed immedi- 
ately by the knife." After much thought and many 
inquiries, I decided to take treatment with Dr. B., 
of Boston, whose kindness and sympathy I shall never 
forget. Both breasts at this time were affected, and 
it was with the greatest difficulty that I could rest at 
night. 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 53 

He said the case " was of a very grave nature ; " that 
it had reached a point where it was " not a matter of 
health, but of life or death;" that all the old diseases 
had resulted in these cancerous tumors, and that the 
disease had infiltrated the entire body. 

Under his treatment I was much relieved of the 
smarting, burning sensation in the breast, which I can- 
not compare to anything but being compelled to stand 
over a bed of red-hot coals. 

The continued pain did not abate. . I suffered with 
pain under the arms, often could not get any rest until 
nearly morning, and finding myself with less strength I 
grew discouraged, after two months of his treatment, 
and gave it up, the doctor advising me to do so. " For," 
said he, "you must be satisfied that you are having the 
very best treatment that can be had." I then went to 
two other doctors. These physicians both pronounced 
it cancer, and advised its removal by use of the knife, 
as soon as my system was in a condition to bear it. 

I took all the medicines they prescribed — and there 
were many kinds — for nearly three months, growing 
so weak that I could with the greatest difficulty get into 
Boston and home again. 

I panted for breath after any little effort to use my 
arms. Often I could not speak aloud for four or five 
hours. My household duties had to be all given up. I 
could not sew — only sit with folded hands through one 
long, dreary day after another. 

I tried to bear it as cheerfully as possible. Like the 
Psalmist, " I poured out my complaint before Him ; I 
showed before Him my trouble." Through it all, I felt 
that I was daily being drawn nearer to Him. Yet I 



54 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

did so desire to live that I had daily to pray, Make me 
zvilling that Thy will may be done. 

Hearing of Mrs. Dr. A. removing cancers by a 
plaster, I consulted her, and, after visiting some of her 
patients, had nearly decided to have one applied, but 
was fearful in regard to the result, I was so weak, and 
was told by three physicians that I could not live 
through the operation. 

The bunches rapidly grew larger — hard, compact, 
ugly things, the one in the right breast appearing as 
though it would soon break through the skin. 

Much prejudiced against the use of the knife, I had 
begun to take Dr. R.'s medicines and to use his 
"Ointment," when I was persuaded to seek relief at 
the hands of the Great Physician, the Healer of souls 
as well as bodies. 

I had heard of faith-cures ; I did not doubt the 
Lord's power to heal diseases ; yet I was never much 
impressed by them. I felt that it was a gift bestowed 
only upon a few, perhaps some who were especially 
good or gifted, for the glory of God. But for me, with 
my unworthiness and my lack of faith, to expect healing 
in this way was simply presumptuous. Yet all uncon- 
sciously, I was being led by the dear Lord to this 
means of cure. 

I am now ashamed of my want of faith. It is not 
strange that He does keep His word, but it is strange 
that we are so slow to believe it. 

" O for a strong and lasting faith, 
To credit what the Almighty saith ! " 

" If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him 
that believeth." (Mark ix : 23.) 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 55 

I find many good Christians sceptical in regard to 
this subject. I do pray that they may be led to accept 
this simple condition. We miss many a blessing be- 
cause of our unbelief. 

Thursday, March 27, I went to the Beacon Hill 
Church ; without much faith I entered its doors. Im- 
mediately there came to me with great power, the fol- 
lowing questions : — 

" Do you believe in the Lord's power? " 

"Yes." 

" You believe it to be as great to-day as when eighteen 
hundred years ago He walked and talked with men ? " 

"Yes." 

" Do you not believe that He healed the sick in those 
days?" 

"Certainly. He says so in His Word." 

" Then could He not cure you, and are you willing to 
let Him do it ? " * 

"Yes, Lord." 

And so I answered very emphatically that I had come 
for faith-healing. 

From that moment I expected to be cured. How, or 
when, I had no thought ; enough that in His own good 
time the Lord would help me. 

Without more thought for the body, I began to pray 
as never before, for my soul. " Lord be merciful unto 
me, heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee." I 
wanted to work for Jesus, and there, in that room, I 
gave myself in renewed consecration to Him. 

I have proved the truth of the promise, "Ye shall 
seek me and find me, when ye shall search for me with 
all your heart." (Jeremiah xxix : 13.) 



56 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

When Dr. Cullis prayed for me, I felt that the Lord 
heard his prayer, and that He would answer it. 

" He will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of 
thy cry ; when he shall hear it He will answer thee." 
(Isaiah xxx : 19.) 

After resuming my seat, this thought came to me : 
Now you have carried this to the Lord as you never 
have before, are you going to trust Him or the phy- 
sicians ? 

Satan said; " Remember, they have told you that you 
must not delay treatment for a day. You know that 
your entire system needs to be cleansed of this terrible 
disease, and how can it be done without medicine ? " 

"I know it all," I answered; "but the Lord who 
created this body has power to change it from a dis- 
eased state to one of perfect health. I will not take 
one drop." 

Not being able to dismiss the subject, however, I 
said to Dr. Cullis at the close of the service, " I believe 
it is the Lord's will that I shall be cured, but — " 

" You are all wrong," he interrupted ; " believe that it is 
done^ 

My heart responded, " Lord, I do believe, help Thou 
mine unbelief." 

Aloud I answered, " I think I do, but I wish to ask if 
I am to take any medicine ?." 

Very emphatically he replied, " Not a drop." 

I never have. 

I returned to Maiden and that afternoon I drove out 
in my carriage. 

The next morning on awakening I was, for an in- 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 57 

stant, surprised at feeling so well. Then the thought 
came : Why, the Lord has cured you. 

" Bless His name ; so He has ! " I exclaimed. 

That day I worked about the house, dusting and 
doing light work nearly all the forenoon. The next 
day I went into my kitchen and assisted in cooking 
until nearly twelve o'clock. That night I could not 
sleep for very joy. 

My heart went out in prayer and praise to God for 
His wonderful goodness, and "that comfort wherewith 
we are comforted of God." 

Until this time I had not had much pain. In the 
midst of my rejoicing I was attacked with such severe 
pains that I began to count them. Eight came in rapid 
succession, so piercing that I could scarcely draw my 
breath. 

" What do you think now ? " said the tempter. 

" That the dear Lord is trying my faith, and it will 
not be strange if He does it many times." 

I had not a doubt that I was to be cured. 

Sunday morning I asked the Lord to speak the 
Word directly to me, that I was to be made entirely 
well. I prayed often during the morning in regard to 
it, while kneeling at the altar in church during the 
service of communion, and when I was not thinking of 
it in any way, there came to me, bringing with them 
such a sweet sense of comfort and rest, these words, 
"Thy faith hath made thee whole, go in peace." 

On Monday I was so weak that I could scarcely lift 
my hands, but no pain. 

The next Thursday I went to Boston, and Dr. Cullis 
offered prayer for me at my request, although I had no 



58 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

doubt that the Lord would perfect His work, adding at 
its close, "And now in the name of the Lord Jesus 
Christ, I pronounce thee healed.'' 

This was the last prayer offered in public for my 
complete restoration to health. 

God gives me daily proof, in the relief from pain, the 
increasing strength, and in the softening and rapid 
decrease of those ugly bunches, that I am being 
" made every whit whole." 

When I remember what was my condition only five 
weeks ago, contrasting it with what it is to-day, I can 
but exclaim, " Bless the Lord, O my soul ; and forget 
not all his benefits." 

" Who f orgiveth all thine iniquities, Who healeth all 
thy diseases." 

" To be made with Thee one spirit 
Is the boon that I lingering ask, 
To have no bar 'twixt my soul and Thine ; 
My thoughts to echo Thy will Divine, 
Myself Thy servant for any task.'' 

The Tuesday previous to going to Dr. Cullis's meeting 
on Thursday, I passed a day of ceaseless pain, and I 
prayed often to be willing to die. I had before decided 
that death was near me, but felt, for the first time that 
day, that I was willing to meet it, little knowing the 
great blessing God had for me just at hand. 

Since I began this, at Dr. Cullis's request, I have 
been afflicted with a weakness and inflammation of the 
eyes, causing me much pain for several days, but the 
dear Lord has been pleased to cure them in answer to 
my own poor prayer. 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 59 

"For this is the confidence we have in him, that if 
we ask anything according to His will, he healeth us." 

I have written at this length, not knowing how to do 
so more briefly, and because this is looked upon by 
some as being such a remarkable case, by others very 
unbelievingly as regards the complete cure, while those 
who have witnessed the progress of the disease, month 
after month, say, "I cannot understand it, yet I cannot 
doubt it." 

For myself, remembering the days and nights of 
agony, the great expense, and the wonderful goodness 
of God, I can only exclaim : 

" Vast, beyond my thought the blessing, 
That I blindly judged was none." 

S. A. Hanscome. 

London, Ohio, January 8, 1884. 
Dear Dr. Cullis : — 

In July, 1870, I had a stroke of paralysis and was 
unable to swallow solid food for over seven years. 
Relief was sought from every available means. At 
that time I had no faith in prayer for the healing of 
the body. In 1878 I had a second stroke, and in 
January, 1879, I had a third stroke which entirely 
prostrated me. 

At that time I was unconverted. One day I was 
reading in " Prayer and Remarkable Answers," when 
I met with a similar case to my own, of three years, 
standing, healed through the prayers of Dr. Cullis. 
This was the first time I had heard of him. I was 
strangely and seriously impressed. Something said to 



6o OTHER FAITH CURES. 

me, Tf you will believe and go to Dr. Cullis, you will be 
healed. My strength was not sufficient for the journey, 
but in answer to prayer I was enabled to reach Boston. 
On Saturday, the 9th of March, we went to the 
Doctor's office. He inquired, " Do you believe in the 
Lord Jesus ?" I answered, "I do!" "Do you be- 
lieve He can heal you?" "I do." " Do you believe 
He will heal you?" I answered, full of confidence, 
"I do." Then we all knelt in prayer. In the name 
of the Lord Jesus I was anointed with oil, and the 
Doctor asked for the removal of all disease. As the 
name of the Lord Jesus was mentioned, a strange 
sensation pervaded my whole being, and I was filled 
with love divine. I realized that the disease was re- 
moved as we touched the hem of His garment. I was 
enabled to take a long walk without fatigue, and to 
swallow solid food without suffering or difficulty. I have 
not one symptom of paralysis, and my health was never 
better in my life, and my faith in God's power and 
willingness to heal diseases in answer to prayer is un- 
bounded. 

Mrs. S. W. 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 6l 



CHAPTER III. 

THE preceding reports of persons healed in answer 
to the promise in James v : 14, 15, were all, as the 
reader will readily see, persons who came under 
my own eyes and hands ; their stories have been told, 
their bodies testify to the power of God to fulfil His 
Word. Beside the persons who come to me, I re- 
ceive from four to five hundred letters each week from 
all parts of this country and the world, asking me to 
pray for their restoration to health. The promise of 
James v., in its literal application, cannot be claimed 
here ; but the promise that the prayer of faith shall 
save the sick can, and faith being exercised, the persons 
are healed. 

I insert these letters that all who will, may readily 
understand that it is not my work, but God's work, and 
that He loves to hear and answer the cry of His 
children. 

These letters are printed just as sent to me by the 
writers, that they may give their own expression to 
what God has done for their bodies and souls. It 
will be noticed how nearly all speak of what I con- 
stantly claim, that God's blessing rests upon all who 
trust Him for healing of the body, — not only the heal- 
ing comes, but also the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 



62 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

HEALING THROUGH PRAYER. 

BY LIZZIE C. BINKLEY. 

I wish to preface the account of God's merciful deal- 
ings with me by stating that I have no sympathy with 
those who claim to, have power of healing through 
Christ's name, and in whose path the wildest fanaticism 
springs up, and whose arrogant pretensions bring great 
reproach upon the cause of Christ. I feel assured,' by 
the teachings of the Scriptures, by knowledge of other 
cases, and by my own experience, that there are in- 
stances where human skill has utterly failed, and God 
has given the desire, the faith, and the answer, by 
healing the sick in this day of rank skepticism, all for 
the glory of his own name, I feel impelled to make 
known to others the great things He has done for me 
in answer to humble, trusting prayer. I do this the 
more gladly because so much has recently been 
written by worthy persons against the reality of these 
things. In the year 1862, while with my husband as 
missionary in China, I received an injury from a fall 
that made me an invalid for nineteen years. Much of 
this time I was confined to my bed from six to eight 
months at a time, with intervals of improvement in 
which I could be up in my room a part of the time, and 
could occasionally ride out. I except a period of two 
years, when I was much better, and seemed almost 
restored to health ; but this improved condition was 
followed by a relapse, from which I never rallied. I 
was constantly under the best medical treatment, but 
received nothing more than temporary relief. Nine 
years ago, while my husband was pastor of Centenary 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 63 

Church, New Albany, India, a number of friends 
assembled at my room, where I had been confined to 
my bed many months, to pray for my restoration ; but 
my faith could not grasp so great a blessing. I felt 
that if such a work was wrought in answer to prayer, it 
was only when God had some specific mission for that 
person ; and I dared not hope so great a blessing was in 
store for me. In the year 1879 my husband in his 
private devotions was peculiarly drawn out by the Spirit 
to pray for my restoration to health, and felt the 
strongest assurance that prayer was answered, and 
that I would be raised up for the work of the Lord. 
I had been confined to bed at this time for several 
months, when he told me his convictions upon the 
subject, although I then had no special faith myself. 
I immediately commenced pleading with God, that this 
work might be done. I continued this wrestling with 
God for three months without any good result. 

I can now see that I lacked the thorough consecra- 
tion of spirit and devotion to the work of Christ that I 
needed to be really useful in the church with restored 
health. A few months after this God took to himself 
our first-born son, in his young manhood, while he was 
preparing to enter the ministry. In giving up this 
treasure of my heart, I learned what it was to know 
God's will only, and to kiss the rod that chasteneth. In 
passing through this great sorrow, the richest treasures 
of heavenly grace and divine consolation were opened 
to my bleeding heart, and by my great loss I was pre- 
pared for God's gift of restored health. Just at this 
time a friend placed in my hands Dr. Charles CulhV 
work on " Faith Cures.'' I felt reluctant to read it, as 



64 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

reading hurt me much, and I felt there was nothing of 
this kind for me, after struggling so long in vain. But 
this book encouraged my faith, and I was led to search 
the Scriptures. So I read the many promises in God's 
word for " the healing of the body as well as the soul." 
A new light broke in upon my mind. Every promise 
was illuminated, as clearly did the Holy Spirit "take of 
the things of God and show them unto me," and I 
realized that health was for me if the conditions were 
complied with. I seemed now to receive new strength 
daily. I felt an intense desire to attend a meeting for 
the promotion of holiness, which was held every Tues- 
day afternoon in the Prospect Street church, Cleveland, 
Ohio, of which my husband was at this time pastor. For 
many years I had been deprived of all church privi- 
leges. By the use of the street cars I was enabled to 
attend this meeting, and here I was greatly blessed, and 
my heart was filled with a burning desire to work for 
Christ. The thought occurred to me that I must 
again seek medical aid so as to be able to begin this 
work, but immediately, as by a voice, the Spirit said 
to me, " The Lord is thy Healer." Soon after this my 
case was presented for prayer at the "consecration 
meeting of Dr. Cullis," in Boston, April 16, 1881. I 
gave up the use of all medicine, and, going upon my 
knees before God, I placed myself fully in his hands. 
I received the clear and distinct answer, as by an audi- 
ble voice, " 7? is done" and the power of God passed 
through my body like an electric current. From this 
time my improvement in health was very marked. I 
was not able to attend church services, but could do 
various kinds of work in my home which I had been 



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unable to do for many years. In a few months God 
gave me a severe test of faith. I was taken very ill 
with dysentery. It had not occurred to me before that 
in an acute disease, as well as in my chronic diseases, 
I could trust God as my Physician, but I was led to 
trust him even in this, and most wonderfully was I 
brought through this dangerous attack without medi- 
cine. Immediately another disease set in. It came 
into my mind (from the enemy) that this trouble would 
pass away of itself, and at this point my faith lost 
its hold upon God as my Healer. For ten days I suf- 
fered intensely, and finally, with a full conscious- 
ness that I had lost my hold upon the blessed 
Jesus, I sent for a physician. In five weeks I passed 
through three acute diseases, all very severe and painful 
in their character. I was greatly prostrated, and my 
chronic diseases returned in renewed force. Again 
prayer was offered for me at Dr. Cullis' Consecration 
meeting, and also at the Holiness meeting in Cleveland, 
Ohio, at the same hour, Oct. 23, 1881, and a most 
glorious deliverance was given to me. While I was 
pleading with God in my own home for a faith that 
would "take Him at his word/' an outstretched hand 
appeared and I seemed to see my own body lifted up 
and laid in that hand. For a moment I was startled, 
but I soon took in the joyful meaning, my faith had 
laid my poor diseased body right in the hand of the 
Great Physician. I immediately commenced praising 
God, and asking for the steadfast, unwavering faith 
that would never again let go of the Great Healer. 
Then it seemed to me that I saw my body suspended 
between the Throne and the earth, while a broad shaft of 



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light, clear and luminous as the rays of the sun, passed 
through my entire body, and I felt light as a feather; all 
the freshness of bright sunny youth came to me ; the 
languor, pain, weariness, and heaviness were all gone. 
Complete deliverance ! Faith triumphant ! the power 
of Jesus to " heal the body as well as the soul " was 
grandly realized. During all the day and through the 
night, a mysterious power thrilled through my whole 
body at intervals. For many years, as I have before 
stated, I had been deprived of all church privileges, 
but now with the healing touch of Christ upon me, I 
immediately commenced attending church, also began 
visiting the sick, and assisting my husband in his 
pastoral w r ork. With delight and gratitude of heart to 
my divine Deliverer, I gathered up the broken thread of 
my life so long a useless one, resuming all the various 
duties of wife, mother, and minister's companion gladly, 
rejoicing once more to be ranked among the humble 
toilers in the Master's Vineyard. 

The work of breaking the power of disease in my 
body and of healing me was done in a moment, but 
the return of my strength was gradual. How many 
times I have thanked the dear Father that he did not 
give me my full measure of strength at once. I should 
have missed so many lessons of sweet trust and faith 
in Himself, and fear I might soon have grown inde- 
pendent of Him. But now, moment by moment, the 
eye of faith fixed steadfastly upon God, I seek for 
every duty a new supply of strength which I always 
receive. Looking to Him alone in every physical as well 
as spiritual ailment, we realize a double union with 
God which can be experienced under no other circum- 



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stances. With my healing came also the richest spirit- 
ual blessing of my life. I seemed to be wholly lost in 
that fathomless Love, all else seemed valueless, save to 
work for Jesus and to glorify that blessed name. I 
have given up medicine entirely under all circumstances, 
but find the need of precaution in taking care of my 
God-given health, and realize the power of Christ to 
preserve what he has given. A year and more has 
now passed away and I am blessed with good health ; 
and yet perfect candor, and that the genuine work of 
the Lord in my case may not be misunderstood, I am 
compelled to touch upon a delicate subject. I am 
laboring under a weakness peculiar to my age, and 
which now increases all the time, and will continue to 
do so, until I have entirely passed through this critical 
period of my life ; this proves a great hindrance at 
times to my engaging in active pursuits, which my gen- 
eral good health renders me entirely able to perform, and 
greatly retards my increase of strength. But in this 
also I look to my great Physician alone, and know 
that in his own good time He will bring me through 
into perfect health and strength for the work He has 
for me to do. Yet notwithstanding this, my life is a 
very busy one, and I do a great deal of work in my 
home. Sometimes when without help in my kitchen, 
I am able to carry my work along for many days, with 
such a sense of gratitude in my heart for health and 
strength to take up life's work again. But better than 
all else I can actively labor for Christ and His cause 
week after week. My ransomed and renewed powers 
are dedicated unto Him, fully, unreservedly, and His 
service is the delight of my life. My heart continually 



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pours forth its gladness in the joyful words of the 
psalmist, " Bless the Lord ! oh, my soul, and all that is 
within me, bless His holy name. Who forgiveth all 
thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases.'' 
May 10, 1883, Bloomjngton, Indiana. 

Ridge Post, Tenn., December 23, 1883. 
Dr. Charles Cullis. 

Dear Sir, — To the Lord be all the praise ! I was 
healed by Him in answer to prayer on the 2d October 
of this year. " The prayer of faith healed the sick, and 
the Lord lifted him up/' — according to this was it 
done unto poor unworthy me. 

For two years I had suffered from nervous prostra- 
tion, when I asked your prayer in February of this year. 
All that money could purchase I obtained, but instead of 
getting better I grew worse and worse ; at last I was so 
weak and so full of pain, that I was compelled to keep 
my bed for days together. 

In this condition I was cured in February. At once 
I went to work and for two months I continued to be 
well ; but I forgot my promise to live only for the glory 
of God, looking up to Jesus for the victory over all sin. 
My impatient nature brought a cloud between God and 
me. I overworked myself and fell sick again, even 
worse than before. In September of this year my ex- 
istence was a burden to me ; each spasm of the stomach 
left me weaker, and two in succession were almost more 
than my strength could bear. 

While in this state I was cured, on the 2d October of 
this year. From that day I have been better every day, 
and I have been able to perform all my duties without 



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pain, spasms, or weakness of any kind. I am so well 
and so happy I would like to tell the whole world, and 
especially the poor sufferers, how the good Physician 
cured His most unworthy child in one moment. 
Believe me yours most gratefully in the Lord, 

Miss Emma E. 

Northfield, Minn., September 29, 1883. 
Dr. Charles Cullis. 

Dear Brother ; — In compliance with your request, I 
send you the following account of my sickness and 
healing. 

In August, 1865, while serving in the army as 
Captain Co. B, 92 U. S. C. T., I was placed on 
detached service at Bragg Home Colony for Freedmen, 
near Thibodeaux, La. A few days after taking charge 
of the colony I received a sunstroke which resulted in 
brain-fever. After a few weeks I was able to resume 
my duties, but was obliged to protect myself carefully 
from the sun. I had a great deal of writing to do for 
the colony. Close attention to this, as well as going 
out in the sun, even with an umbrella, caused rush of 
blood to the head, and I consequently suffered with 
headache much of the time. 

After my discharge, January 31st, 1866, I went to 
visit friends in Illinois, where I was soon taken ill. 
My sickness terminated in another attack of brain- 
fever, caused, as my physician thought, by the effects 
of the sunstroke. 

In April of the same year I moved to Wyandotte, 
Kan., where I resided for nearly sixteen years. During 
all that period, every ailment I had always affected my 



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head. I was obliged to use the greatest precaution to 
protect my head from the sun, wearing leaves or a wet 
sponge in my hat, carrying an umbrella when walking, 
and having a large cover over my wagon-seat when 
riding. Notwithstanding this care, I scarcely knew 
what it was to be free from pain in my head during 
warm weather ; and even in winter, exposure to bright 
sun gave me headache. Any hard physical labor or 
prolonged mental work brought on the same trouble ; 
being in a room warm enough for other people caused 
excessive flow of blood to my head, and at times, 
especially in hot weather, I suffered from dizziness. 

My disability increased as the years went by, and in 
the summer of 1877 my symptoms became more alarm- 
ing; I became subject to occasional sinking spells, 
when my pulse would be down to fifty beats per 
minute, and so weak that it could scarcely be discovered 
at all ; sometimes I had a feeling as if I should suffo- 
cate, and had to raise up in bed to get breath. I had 
a great deal of throbbing in my temples, and at times 
it became so violent that it seemed as if the whole 
house were shaking. I could not sleep well, on account 
of intense pain and throbbing in my head at night, 
and when the worst, was obliged to have my wife lay 
her hand on my forehead in order to sleep at all. 

The only way that I could attend to my business, 
which was small fruit and vegetable growing and 
marketing, was by the constant use of medicine and 
quantities of strong coffee, which temporarily relieved 
the dizziness and pain in a measure. 

During the years between 1877 and 1881 I was 
treated by three different physicians, all of whom told 



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me that it was risking my life to be out in very hot 
weather, even with protection for my head. 

It became harder and harder for me to get through 
the summer each year, until in July, 1881, I became so 
prostrated that I was obliged to give up all business. 

Thinking that rest and freedom from all care for a 
year or so might in a measure restore my health, I 
moved to St. Louis late in the fall. I improved for a 
time, but in January, 1882, my eyes became seriously 
affected. They had always been weak since the sun- 
stroke, and after exposure to the sun they looked red 
and watery. Within a few years previous I had 
suffered several attacks of granulated lids. At this 
time the granules were worse than ever before, and 
there was inflammation of the balls. I suffered in- 
tensely with pain in my eyes and head, was obliged to 
wear a shade over my eyes, and was forbidden to read 
or write. Doctors said that the eye trouble was caused 
by the affection of the brain. 

Warm weather coming on in April, I had the same 
symptoms as in July previous, dizziness, low pulse, a 
sensation as if the upper part of the skull were being 
lifted off, together with intense pain in the forehead, 
throbbing of temples, and great sensitiveness to jarring 
and noise. My feet were icy cold, hot applications fail- 
ing to warm them ; I had no appetite, slept but little, 
and when I did drop asleep, dreamed incessantly, 
often of falling or something frightful. My head be- 
came so sensitive that the least moving of the bed- 
clothes could hardly be endured, and the accidental 
hitting of a spoon against a cup was like a blow with a 
stick over my head. 



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Physicians urged me to try a northern climate ; so, as 
soon as I improved enough to travel by boat, I went up 
the Mississippi to St. Paul, arriving there the 7th of 
June. During the latter part of the trip I gained 
considerably, and was able to endure the ride by rail to 
Lake Minnetonka, twenty-five miles from St. Paul, 
where I camped with my family in the woods during the 
summer. The quiet and shade and cool weather w T ere 
very favorable for my comfort, still I suffered constantly 
with pain in my head, and little exertion or steady 
thought aggravated it. 

In August, the weather was quite warm and I grew 
worse, and in addition to my former symptoms began to 
feel a soreness at the back of the neck, it hurting me 
to turn my head. 

In the latter part of September I moved to North- 
field, Minn. The jarring and noise of the cars were very 
trying, and I suffered terribly. I was so nervous that I 
could not keep quiet, until, October 16th, I could sit up 
no longer. My physician in St. Louis had treated me 
by mail all summer, but now Dr. George Ricker of this 
place was called. His medicine alleviated the pain 
somewhat, in a few days, but there was such tenderness 
in my head that raising it off the pillow, or any noise, 
brought on sharp pain again. I could not now bear to 
have my head touched, and a hand laid ever so lightly 
on my forehead felt like a weight of lead. I could not 
endure the heat of a stove, but had to lie in a room 
without a fire all last winter. Hot applications were 
kept constantly at my feet, which were always cold, end 
cold applications were kept most of the time on my head 
and spine. The latter became very sensitive to touch, 



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and suffered from a burning sensation ; there was also 
much burning and throbbing in my head. My eyes were 
very weak and sensitive to strong light ; both my wife and 
myself thought I could not live • indeed, I suffered so 
much and had suffered so long, that I asked God to let 
me die if it was his will. My heart was soon filled with 
such peace, however, that I was perfectly reconciled to 
whatever my Heavenly Father thought best for me. 
Physicians here and in St. Louis pronounced my dis- 
ease hyperaemia of the brain, and chronic meningitis, 
and gave me no encouragement to recovery ; their only 
hope being to lessen my suffering. 

Affidavits have been made in regard to the case by 
Doctors S. B. Parsons, and J. T. Kent, of St. Louis, 
Mo., and Dr. Geo. E. Ricker, of Northfield, Minn. 

As warm weather came on, I grew more restless and 
nervous, and my spine troubled me so much that I felt 
as if I could not lie on the bed any longer, but must 
get up and see if it would not feel easier. I got up 
several times, but was worse afterwards ; I tried sitting 
up a little while again on the 4th of July, but suffered 
much in consequence of the effort. 

In the latter part of May I had commenced studying 
the Scriptures, especially in reference to Christ's mis- 
sion as a Healer of the body, as well as a Saviour of 
the soul. 

I had always accepted the words of the Bible liter- 
ally, and had not believed in limiting the power of the 
Holy Ghost to past time, but I did not find others who 
agreed with me. The more I studied the subject, the 
more I became convinced that the command and prom- 



74 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

ise in James v. 14 and 15, were for the present day, as 
well as for the days of the Apostles. 

I felt that I needed human sympathy and encourage- 
ment, and prayed that I might find persons who 
believed as I did in regard to praying for the recovery 
of the sick. Two gentlemen, Prof. W. W. Payne, and 
Dr. D. J. Whiting, of this place, were sent to me in 
answer to my prayers. 

They visited me frequently, and we studied the Bible 
in regard to answers to prayer, and read various books 
and tracts on the subject of faith cures. My eyes were 
so weak that I was advised not to use them, but some- 
thing said to me, " Search the Word," and I did so, 
using only one eye. With me truly, " Thy words were 
found and I did eat them : and thy word was unto me 
the joy and rejoicing of mine heart : for I am called 
by thy name, O Lord God of hosts." (Jer. xv. 16.) 

Comparing James v. 14, 15, with Lam. hi. 33 ; Matt, 
viii. 17, and Isaiah v. 3, 4, which says, "Surely He 
hath borne our griefs, (which I found means diseases,) 
and carried our sorrows," (which means troubles of the 
mind,) my faith rested as upon things immutable. 

By using Dr. Young's Analytical Concordance, I 
searched out the meaning of every word in these pas- 
sages referring to this subject, in the original 
languages, as well as the meaning of all other passages 
bearing thereon. I gave up all medicines in July, and 
trusted wholly in God for restoration. 

In answer to my- request that you pray for my 
recovery, you informed me that prayer would be offered 
for me at 3 p. m., August 21. Up to that time my 
symptoms remained the same. I had to have hot appli- 



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cations at my feet, and cold at my head, there being 
incessant pain and burning in my head and spine, which 
was increased by movement or noise. My spine had 
become very tender to the touch, and I could not bend 
it or use my arms freely without hurting it. My wife 
cared for me as she would for a child. At a quarter 
before two on the day appointed by you, the two gentle- 
men before mentioned, together with Mrs. Wilcox, met 
in my room. After prayer by each, I making one of 
special consecration, the directions given in James v. 
14, were complied with ; and prayers were again offered, 
claiming the fulfilment of the promise in James v. 15, 
the Spirit of the Lord being upon all present. 

About three o'clock I was asked how I felt. It was 
the first thought I had had of my disease for the hour 
and a quarter ; a piece of heaven had come down to 
me, and my Saviour's presence was too blessed for me 
to think of anything else. After thinking over my ail- 
ments to see what change I could discover, I replied, 
" I don't feel any pain whatever." Prayers of thanks- 
giving were then made by all present. " Shall I go to 
the church prayer-meeting to-night ? " I asked. " Do 
just as the Spirit leads you ; I believe you can go about* 
as well," replied one of the gentlemen. I believed that 
Christ had done His part, and that I was cured. I re- 
membered "The Lord God is my strength," and also 
" My strength is made perfect in weakness," and deter- 
mined to act accordingly. 

As the brethren went to their carriage, I got up and 
walked to the door and said to them, " I shall walk by 
faith and not by sight." " See that you do that," was 
the reply. 



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Mrs. Wilcox then went to the organ, and I joined with 
her in singing heartily " Praise God, from whom all 
blessings flow." By this I discovered that all sensi- 
tiveness to noise had disappeared. We then knelt in 
prayer, I suffering no inconvenience in my spine. 

Afterwards I walked the floor most of the time for 
two hours, feeling as if there were an unseen power 
pushing me on, I stretching my arms up and out, while 
a peculiar building-up process seemed going on in my 
spine. I had taken no food except a little milk for 
forty-eight hours, as I believe in fasting when we want 
special blessings from God. After eating supper at the 
table for the first time in over ten months, I walked to 
the houses of some of the neighbors. I thought, " I 
will trust and not be afraid ; for the Lord Jehovah is 
my strength," and called to mind His words, " I will 
never leave thee nor forsake thee," and other precious 
promises. 

At seven o'clock I went to the church prayer-meet- 
ing over half a mile distant, walking bflth ways without 
any assistance, and taking part in the meeting. While 
going out of the church, talking, I for a moment forgot 
from whom came my help, and began to make crooked 
steps ; I instantly prayed and went out of the church 
and down the sidewalk as if carried by invisible hands, 
my feet seeming hardly to touch the planks. When 
near home I began to talk of the expressions of the 
people I had met, losing hold of the unseen rope hang- 
ing down from above, and one leg gave out suddenly. 
I was about to sink to the sidewalk, but nothing doubt- 
ing, again lifted my heart in prayer and praise, and 
new strength was at once given me. Reaching home, I 



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threw myself on to the lounge, and a feeling of exhaus- 
tion and sickness at the stomach came over me. In- 
stantly I got on my knees, my wife joining me in prayer. 
All unpleasant feelings left me at once ; there was a 
thrill of joy and strength all over me, especially along 
my spine. Spiritual power came with renewed force, 
so that if there had been any need to glorify my great 
Physician, I could have gone right back to the church. 
I went to bed, but had such fullness of joy, and a heart 
so full of praise, that I could not sleep. About mid- 
night my wife said, " What is the matter ? You are 
trembling all over." I replied, " I did not know I was 
trembling, I was talking with God." During this com- 
munion the consuming fire of God's love came upon 
me in such power that I pleaded, u O Lord God, with- 
draw from me lest I die. Who am I that thou shouldst 
so visit me ! " 

Feeling that it was time that I slept, I said, " Lord, 
let me rest in thee," and this was my last thought until 
I saw the bright sunlight streaming in at the window, 
having had a most refreshing sleep, without a single 
dream. On the Friday evening following my restora- 
tion, some twenty-five friends and neighbors met at our 
house to unite with us in praising God for what he had 
done. Ever since the day of my healing I have come and 
gone as need has required, or found work to do for the 
Master. I often feel a power pushing me on, and seem 
to hear the words, " Go, go, testify of me, for I am the 
Lord thy Healer." I have had no return of my old 
symptoms ; instead of having to avoid the sunshine as I 
had done for eighteen years, I now enjoy being in it, 
and having it on my bare head even. 



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The spiritual blessing, however, far exceeds the 
physical, although the latter is so great. I have been 
an earnest Christian for twenty-three years, but never 
before I got up, knew such rest and peace in going to 
God. I have no wish to do anything to please myself. 
" Not my way, but the Lord's way," is the desire of my 
soul. The Holy Spirit leads me in a wonderful man- 
ner. Over and over again I am overwhelmed with His 
presence thrilling me through and through. " This is 
the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes." 

Mrs. Wilcox was also healed in answer to prayer, 
her ailments disappearing gradually in a short time 
after my recovery. She, too, received a rich spiritual 
blessing. Yours in Christ, 

C. E. Wilcox. 

The following letter is taken from The Shining Way 
published in David City, Nebraska : 

A FAITH CURE. 

Dear Brother Brown, — A rather remarkable case of 
answer to prayer has occurred in our city during the 
past week, an account of which was published in the 
Minneapolis Tribune, which I will send to you. 

Monday last, one week after the case, I went to see 
Mr. Wilcox, and I found both himself and wife to be 
intelligent and interesting people. The disease from 
which he suffered, I think, was accurately described in 
the published account I send you, and continued up to 
the hour of his cure with all its severity. 

The date and hour of the prayer meeting was set by 
Dr. Chas. Cullis of Boston, who agreed to pray with 



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them at that hour. Prof. Payne, a Congregationalist, 
of Carleton College, and Dr. Whitney (dentist), a 
Methodist, were praying with him in his room at the 
same time of his cure. 

These two men, Whitney and Payne, are my near 
neighbors, and I know them well ; and while I regard 
them as good, religious men, yet they are not remark- 
able for their zeal in religious matters ; nor would I 
think of sending for either of them if I wanted any 
one to pray with me. 

They are both of them firm believers in faith-cure as 
taught in the Bible and realized in the experiences of 
men, but I do not know that either of them professes 
holiness or even believes in the doctrine. 

That Mr. Wilcox is to-day a healthy man, body and 
mind, there can be no doubt. That he is a perfectly 
honest man, I am fully convinced. That he was wholly 
cured by faith, both he and his intimate friends are as 
certain as they can be of a fact. 

Prof. Payne is the astronomer of Carleton College, a 
man of wide reputation as a scientist, a close observer 
and not likely to be deceived. When I called 
on Mr. Wilcox he was sitting in front of his house 
along with his wife, with a dozen or more books 
on the "Power of Faith," " Faith-Cures,'' " Faith and 
Effects," "Remarkable Answers to Prayer," etc., be- 
side him. 

We talked about his case as naturally as I would of a 
cure that had been produced through drugs. To his 
mind there was nothing remarkable about it. The 
thing to be wondered at was that, among Christians, it 
did not occur more frequently. Please write me what 



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your experience and observation has taught you to be- 
lieve in regard to such cases. 

Your loving friend, 
Northfield, Minn. Will. 

July 2, 1883. 
Dr. Cullis. 

Dear Sir, — At your request I will write about my 
sickness and healing. I have been ill from childhood. 
In i853~'54 I was in the Massachusetts General Hos- 
pital, a great part of the time confined to my bed. From 
there I was removed to Dorchester, under Dr. Miller's 
care, where I remained for several months with female 
weakness and a false growth in the side, which was re- 
moved ; then I improved some. I left there, and was 
under the care of various physicians for three years. I 
became better for a short time, then worse again. In 1859 
I was taken much worse with a strange disease, which 
seemed new to every one. From that time until within 
the last five weeks I have suffered beyond description, 
confined to my bed and obliged to lie in one position for 
weeks and months. For four years and a half I have 
had morphine injected every day, and often twice and 
three times a clay. I was able to walk but a very 
little, and was confined to my crutches when I could 
walk. I also had spinal difficulty, which caused me 
intense suffering both night and day. About three 
times a year for the last twelve years I have had what I 
call water-sacks, which would break, and at such 
times death would be preferable, for none but God 
knows what my sufferings were. I would bloat fearfully, 
then would follow terrible pain, continuing for hours. 



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Then would come one great pain, when it would seem as if 
I was being torn in two. The sack would then break, 
followed by a profuse flow of clear water. I would be 
helpless for hours. Then another would fill and break, 
until there would be at times twenty-nine in succession. 
Then for weeks I would be weak and helpless. This dis- 
ease seemed to baffle the skill of every physician. For 
the last nine years I have been able to go out but a few 
times, not being able to walk, as I would fall so sud- 
denly. With all these troubles I had what was called 
by some, an organic disease of the heart, by others, 
dropsy around the heart, which would prevent me from 
lying down night or day. At one time Mrs. M. E. C. 
of Worcester prayed fervently with me in my home, 
also at the meetings in the Home, but my faith was 
so weak that I could not claim the promises until 
the time I wrote ycu first, the twenty-fifth of last May. 
Hundreds have seen my sufferings, and can testify with 
me that they were almost without parallel. My pastor 
would ask, 6i How is it that you can suffer so and live ? " 
I cannot describe one half what I have suffered all these 
weary years. Having read extracts of your cures the 
last year, I began to think that perhaps I could be 
healed. Some of my friends proposed uniting with you 
in prayer that I might be healed, which I did May 29. 
I gave up my physician and placed myself in God's 
hands. While praying it seemed as if I w r as lifted 
above earthly things, even had glimpses of heaven, and 
I could hear the Father saying, "According to thy 
faith be it unto thee." I claimed the promises of the 
Father as mine, and that night I sat up without sup- 
port ; the next morning I was dressed, and only twice 



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since then have I been confined to my bed. Then I 
allowed the tempter to come in, and I sent for a doctor ; 
but, please God, he can never overcome again, for I 
am God's chosen child. When weak I go to Him and 
receive strength. My soul is full of light and peace. 
I am a wonder unto many. I am gaining each day, 
and this morning I can of a surety say, " I am healed ; 
God has verified his promise to unworthy me." I seem 
to have been transformed ; old things have passed 
away, and all things have become new. Pains which 
have been my constant companions for twenty years 
have left me ; and all I can do is to shout aloud, 
" Praise God ! " I now consecrate my all to His ser- 
vice. He is mine and I am His, and none can sepa- 
rate us. And all I can do in my great joy is to fall 
at His feet, 

" And the story repeat, 
And the Lover of Sinners adore." 

Oh, wonderful thought ! I am healed ; saved to work 
for the Master, purified through suffering. 

" Oh, for a thousand tongues to sing 
My great Redeemer's praise." 

Oh, wondrous thought ! Healed both body and soul. 
Oh, what shall I render unto my God ? Recompense, I 
cannot ; but, praise God, I can minister unto His many 
children, and tell them what the Father hath done for 
me, of the " songs that I have heard i?i the valley of 
suffering" God bless you ! I attended church yester- 
day for the first time in eight years. Again I say, God 
bless you in this great work. 

Yours, in Christian fellowship and in the faith, 

Mrs, C. O. VY\ 



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Fort Smith, Kan,, Jan. 14, 1884. 
Dear Bro. Cullis : — 

Happy to report to you : in answer to prayer, on 
Tuesday, December 19, my wife was healed. Glory to 
God ! Truly the day of healing is not past. On the 
day, at the time appointed, two of my neighbors, whom 
I invited, came in and united with us in prayer. After 
we had prayed we sang two verses of " Hallelujah, 'tis 
done," when her countenance became radiant and she 
exclaimed, " Bless the Lord, 'tis done." She describes 
the feeling that came upon her as a shock running from 
her head to her feet, and instantly she broke out in a 
healthy perspiration, something she had not done 
during all her sickness. She is building up as rapidly 
as can be expected. We both unite in saying, Bless 
the Lord, O my soul ! 

We remain yours in Christ, 

D. L. and S. E. F. 

Manistee, Mich., April 16, 1883. 
Charles Cullis, M.D. 

Kind Friend : At the request of my friend, Mrs. B. 
W. Kies, of this city, who wrote you some weeks since 
requesting your prayers in her behalf, I write you with 
a grateful heart that it is her belief that your prayers 
have indeed wrought in her a marvellous and miracu- 
lous cure. Mrs. Kies is a lady forty years of age ; for 
a little more than three years she has suffered intensely 
from neuralgia of the face and head, on the left side. 
She has been treated by several physicians of this city, 
both allopathic and homoeopathic, and has received no 
lasting benefit from either school. 



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In the fall of '82, Mrs. Kies visited Chicago, 111., 
and, placing herself under the care of a somewhat 
noted specialist, Dr. Delamater, a homceopathist, she 
was subjected to surgical treatment and a certain nerve 
in her face was cut apart, and she was pronounced cured 
and returned home. In a few weeks, however, she was 
nearly as bad as ever, and has suffered untold agony 
by spells ever since. Hearing of the many wonderful 
cures effected in answer to your prayers, she w^as 
impelled to write to you for help. On the very day on 
which your letter to her was sent, March 23, she began 
to be better, on the 24th very much better; on the 25th 
she removed the flannel bandage from her head, which 
she had worn for months and could not leave off ; and 
so on, each day, until she seems as well as ever in her 
life, and her face is radiant with hope and life. 

Mrs. Lucy T. Stansell. 
For Mrs. S. A. Kies, wife of B. W. Kies. 

Newark, N. J. 
Dear Brother in Christ : 

I write to let you know the Lord has answered the 
prayer you offered in my behalf. I had long been 
suffering from rheumatism : a great deal of the time 
not able to walk or stand on my feet. Finding only 
temporary relief in medicine, I thought there was no 
cure for me. But I met a friend that had been cured 
through your prayers, and faith in God. She w 7 anted 
me to write and ask your prayers, but I felt too unworthy 
and thought, perhaps, if I could see you I might be 
cured. But after looking over those precious promises 
and praying over them, I made up my mind to write and 



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ask your prayers for my recovery. As soon as I had 
done so I began to get worse. My rheumatism had 
not been so bad for along time ; but I was determined, 
with God's grace assisting me, not to take any medicine. 
I was getting worse all the time ; but my faith kept 
growing stronger, and I felt willing to leave it all with 
the Lord. I received your letter telling me the hour 
you would offer prayer for me. I waited anxiously for 
the time to arrive, continually praying for strength lo 
bear my pain and that my faith might be strengthened. 
I was reading my Bible and it seemed that I never 
understood it so well before ; it was all so plain to me. 
And how thankful I am that those precious promises 
were ever written. The hour came : I knelt in prayer, 
and. such a peace filled my soul ! I can never forget it. 
But feeling worse in body all the time, a deathly sick- 
ness came over me. However, I kept on praying that I 
might be cured; I was willing to use my strength for 
Him. After being in prayer for over an hour, a 
strange feeling came over me which I cannot describe 
— something like electricity. Some one seemed to 
say, Why plead longer? leave it all with the Lord. And 
feeling very sick, I lay down upon the bed completely 
exhausted, and fell asleep. I slept about twenty min- 
utes. When I awoke I felt so refreshed and free from 
all pain, I arose to my feet, and, bless the Lord, I could 
walk as well as ever. I have had no return of it since. 
Blessed be His name ! 

Yours in Him, M. L. S. 



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HEALED THROUGH FAITH. 

Elkhart, Ind., March 10. — Within two miles of 
Bristol, a village of 800 inhabitants, situated some 
nine miles from this city on the banks of the St. Joseph 
river, lives a well-to-do and respectable farmer named 
Joseph Kantz, about 60 years of age. He has reared 
a large family, all of whom, with the exception of one 
son, are, with himself and wife, devout Christians and 
members of the church of the Evangelical Association 
of North America. On March 31, 1882, his daughter 
Anna, at that time about 15 years of age, a very beauti- 
ful and intelligent young lady, while in attendance at 
school, fell and sprained her ankle in such a manner 
that she has been unable to use her foot since, or bear 
the least weight upon it, notwithstanding that all has 
been done for her that surgery or medical skill could 
suggest. Dr. J. E. Barbour, who treated her constantly 
and had called in other eminent practitioners to advise 
with him about the case, declared that she would never 
have the use of it again, and that she never would be 
able to walk without crutches. 

About this time, when all hope of her recovery had 
been given over, her elder sister, Abbie, also a devout 
Christian, noticed a statement in an eastern paper 
which she chanced to be scanning, about Dr. Charles 
Cullis, of Boston, Mass. It immediately occurred to 
her, that, as all earthly efforts had failed, here was an 
opportunity to test the divine power, and that perhaps 
her loved sister might yet be healed. With her, to re- 
solve was to act, and on February 6, 1883, she wrote 
Dr. Cullis, telling him of her sister Anna's condition, 



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and giving a complete statement of the case ; asking 
that he might become interested in it, and assist them 
in this their dire distress and need. 

On February 12, just six days afterward, she received 
an answer, stating that on February 20, at 3 o'clock 
p. m., prayer would be offered for her recovery ; that 
she should take God at His word, believe in Him, and 
trust in His promises, at the same time referring to the 
103d Psalm, wherein He promises to heal all diseases, 
which she should read prayerfully and with faith. 

Determining to trust fully on that day, Anna, in 
company with her mother and sister, entered her room, 
and all three fervently engaged in prayer for her re- 
covery. At 2.45 she put her ankle to the test, to see if 
it would bear any weight, by taking off the steel cast 
which she wore ; and putting on a shoe and taking her 
crutches, she endeavored to put her foot to the floor and 
to press upon it gradually ; but after giving it a thorough 
trial she found that the slightest pressure gave her 
almost unendurable pain, and she desisted. She then 
seated herself upon a chair, took up her Bible, re- 
ferred to the psalm above mentioned, and began read- 
ing it; while reading, it seemed as if a perfect trust 
in the great Healer of all ills gradually stole over her 
mind, and that whatsoever might be His will, hers would 
be gladly submissive thereto. At precisely 3 o'clock 
she arose, with her crutches still under her arms from 
habit, and placing her foot upon the floor, essayed with 
perfect confidence to walk ; and finding that there was 
no longer any pain, her crutches flew away like magic, 
and she sprang forward, walking, leaping, and praising 
God, as did the lame man at the beautiful gate when 



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the Apostle Peter spoke the welcome words, " Silver 
and gold have I none, but such as I have give I thee. 
Arise and walk." To describe her sensations when she 
realized that she was healed, — when she felt that she 
was no longer lame, that she was again able to walk as 
in the happy days gone by, — she says is impossible, but 
that nothing short of heaven itself can eclipse her joy. 
It has caused great wonder and excitement, not only 
in the immediate neighborhood, but for miles around ; 
and many believe who never believed before. Great 
joy is experienced by all her friends and associates, as 
she has been a general favorite among all. Some of 
her near relatives live in this city, and rank among our 
best citizens. This is a true statement of the wonder- 
ful prayer cure, and can be vouched for by your corre- 
spondent, who enjoys a personal acquaintance with the 
family. 

Among the many precious promises in God's Word, 
there is, perhaps, not one which has for so many years 
been lost sight of by Christians as the one in James v : 
15, i( The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the 
Lord shall raise him up." We are glad, however, that 
during the past few years Christians have again learned 
to regard that promise as a living truth, and in conse- 
quence have seen wonderful things. 

On the 1 6th of January last, it was the writer's happy 
privilege to see this promise fulfilled in answer to 
earnest prayer. Mrs. Kate Graver, one of our mem- 
bers here, had been suffering from an internal cancer 
for the last three years. At times her pain was severe, 
but yet she performed her household duties until about 



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six months ago, when she was obliged to succumb to 
the disease. She grew worse rapidly, her pain becoming 
more intense day by day, and all hopes of her recovery 
were given up by her friends and physician. While 
she was in this hopeless condition, one of her friends 
called her attention to the promise in James v: 15, 
told her of others who had been cured through prayer, 
and advised her to resort to the same means, since 
human efforts failed. Then, in accord with her desire, 
I wrote to Dr. Charles Cullis, of Boston, requesting 
him to unite in prayer with us for her restoration. The 
hour agreed upon for mutual prayer was 3 p. m. on the 
1 6th of January. At the appointed time Rev. David 
Lentz, the writer, and some Christian friends, met in 
the room of the sick sister, who was then exceedingly 
weak Brother Lentz read some appropriate passages 
of Scripture, after which we bowed in silent prayer. 
Several earnest prayers were then offered, and a num- 
ber of songs were sung, when, after the lapse of forty- 
five minutes, she arose from her bed, and began to 
praise God for His goodness to her. Soon afterward 
she dressed herself, descended the stairs unaided, and 
then ate a hearty supper. She slept naturally that 
night, and since then has been growing stronger and 
is able to do light work. She feels no traces of the 
cancer, and hopes to discharge all her duties ere long. 
What a grand, cheering thought that our Father is 
able and willing to heal our bodies as well as our souls, 
if we come to Him in faith. " Bless the Lord, O my 
soul, and forget not all His benefits; who forgive th all 
thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases. Bless the 
Lord, O my soul." — Quakertown, Pa. 



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The following is taken from The Liberal, of Rich- 
mond Hill, Ont, Canada. 

A FAITH CURE. 

A YOUNG LADY RESTORED TO HEALTH WITHOUT MEDICINE. 
THE STORY FROM HER OWN LIPS. 

[Explanatory. — In response to repeated requests from friends 
and acquaintances of the parties interested, and also to supply a 
very large demand for copies containing this article, which our 
issue of last week was inadequate to, we republish the following 
article.] 

During the past week a good deal of excitement has 
been caused in this vicinity by the rumor that a won- 
derful cure had been wrought at Maple, four miles 
west of this village, the only means used being faith 
and prayer. The subject of the cure was Miss Sarah 
McQuarrie, daughter of Mr. Archibald McQuarrie, 
one of the best known and most respected citizens in 
the township of Vaughan. Bent on knowing the 
facts of the case, a representative of The Liberal drove 
out to the residence of Mr. McQuarrie, about half a 
mile north of Maple, where he found Miss McQuarrie 
at work sewing, and able to go around the house 
apparently quite well ; though the traces of disease and 
suffering were still strongly portrayed upon her coun- 
tenance. He learned the following facts from Miss 
McQuarrie's own lips, and from her father and mother : 
On Thanksgiving Day, five years ago, 2 2d November 
last, Miss McQuarrie walked to Maple and returned 
feeling very miserable. She continued growing worse, 
and when medical advice was called, it was found that 
she had a tumor growing. Everything that medical 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 9 1 

aid could do was done, except an operation, which the 
physicians themselves considered useless ; and so mat- 
ters went on with her for five long years, during which 
time she suffered a great deal. For much of that 
time she was unable to help herself, her left arm and 
leg being almost paralyzed, and she having little or no 
use of them. At; times she was entirely confined to 
bed, while at others she was able to sit up a few hours 
each day. For a whole year at one time she was unable 
to get up, only as she was lifted out of and into the bed. 
During the past winter she has only been out of her 
room three or four times ; and for five weeks previous to 
the wondrous change, had not been able to be up at 
all. For some time she had been endeavoring to 
obtain the address of Dr. Cullis, of Boston, feeling 
that if she could lay her case before the ■* Praying 
Circle, " of which Dr. Cullis is at the head, she would 
be restored, and through Rev. W. J. Barkwell, B. A., 
succeeded in doing so about three weeks ago. She 
immediately got her brother to write to Dr. Cullis, 
which took place on May 28, to which she received the 
following reply : 

Boston, May 31, 1884. 
Dear Friend : — Yours received. Prayer for you will be 
offered on Tuesday next, at 3 p. M. May you take God at his 
word. "The prayer of faith shall cure the sick." 

Yours in Him, Charles Cullis. 

On the day appointed, Tuesday, June 5, Miss 
McQuarrie was feeling unusually miserable up to the 
appointed hour, when she realized a sudden change 
come over her; and at twenty minutes past three 
o'clock she was up, dressed, and going around the 



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room. A few minutes later she left her room and went 
out to where her sister was at work, who thought her 
invalid sister had gone out of her mind, and was 
terribly frightened, but by the assurance of her sister 
became convinced that all was right. She then went 
out and examined a new building, a summer kitchen 
and milk department that was being erected at the 
back of the house. When her father, who was from 
home at the time, returned in the evening, she pre- 
vailed on him to take her for a drive; though, like the 
other members of the family, he feared something was 
wrong mentally, and she dressed herself and got into 
the buggy without assistance. Since that time her 
health has been perfect, she has suffered no pain, has 
arisen between six and seven o'clock in the- morning, 
and continued without lying down until eight or nine at 
night. Traces of the tumor are rapidly disappearing ; 
and the foot, on which during those years she was un- 
able to stand, or raise high enough off the floor to walk 
over a rug, she used quite freely during the interview, in 
walking about, which she did with apparent ease, and 
stood on it alone, raising the other off the floor. She 
says she feels in perfect health, and though she knows 
too much exercise would exhaust her, she believes 
her strength will gradually return. She fully and un- 
hesitatingly believes that the whole is the result of 
faith and prayer. Her father and mother with the 
other members of the family are rejoiced beyond 
measure and justly so, for the change is little short of 
miraculous, her attendant physician having admitted 
that he never expected to see her able to go around 
again. In conversing with a number of people on the 



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subject, there is found to be great diversity of opinion 
in reference to the matter, even in the immediate 
neighborhood where large numbers have gone to see 
her \ but all agree that there is something wonderful 
about it. Such are the main facts of the case, and for 
the present we forbear comment. 

Later. Just before going to press this week we had 
an interview with Miss McQuarrie's father, who says 
she continues feeling quite well and grows stronger 
every day, and purposes visiting Richmond Hill and 
giving us a call one of these days. 

Bristol, Ind., March 21, 1883. 
Dr. Cullis. 

Kind Sir: Your note of March 19 is at hand. It is 
with pleasure that I try and give you the particulars of 
my healing. I sprained my ankle four years ago last 
January. I have had the care of the best of doctors, 
and was at a water-cure four months last summer, and 
yet my foot was not well. I have suffered much, and 
oh ! the anxiety for fear I should never walk again ! 
Then I saw Miss Kantz, who had been cured through 
your prayers offered for her; and as I had great faith in 
prayer, I wrote to you, February 23, and received an 
answer, March 5, that the prayer would be offered for 
me, March 5, at 3 p. m. You told me to take God at 
His Word, and bless His great and holy name. I did, 
and was enabled to walk, and have net had any need 
of crutches since then. My daily prayer is for more 
faith, and a closer walk with God. March 6, ten 
minutes to 3 p. m., I took my Bible, went into a room 
by myself, and read the 123d Psalm; then I prayed 



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that God would heal and restore, and then I tried to 
walk, when I found my foot was very painful. I read 
the chapter again ; then I prayed more earnestly, trying 
to walk ; I found my foot was easier. I read the 
chapter the third time, and prayed ; then I tried to 
walk; I found the pain was all gone. I exclaimed, 
" Praise God, I can walk ! " The Lord only knows the 
joy of my heart ; words cannot express it. My heart is 
full of gratitude to you for aiding me with your prayers. 
I have told the story of my being cured by prayer, but 
it does not grow old. Oh, how I love to tell it ! 

I am your well-wishing friend, M. C. 

Philadelphia, August 31, 1884. 
Dear Dr. Cullis : 

At Mrs. Hannah Smith's I met you, and asked you 
to pray to God that He would heal my heart ; you 
asked God to do so, and thanks be to His name He did. 
A few nights after, I had a return, but I just said, 
" Jesus, thou hast healed," and instantly it stopped. 
To His name be all the praise ! 

Yours in Christ, Carrie H. L. 

Mystic, Conn., August 8, 1882. 
Dear Dr. Cullis : 

I presume, among your many patients, you have 
entirely forgotten the little girl who came to you nearly 
three years ago, suffering from an ovarian tumor. 
Papa was with me at that time, and I stayed only two 
or three days, but in the spring I came back, and 
remained several weeks at the Somerset House. 
Though unable to show my gratitude in any way, I 



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shall never forget your patient kindness, as I came 
day after day, and week after week, for your prayers. 
I am healed of the tumor. During the past month the 
enlargement has suddenly disappeared, until now 
there is scarcely a vestige of it left. My weight has 
been reduced from one hundred and twenty-three 
pounds to eighty-nine pounds. I feel perfectly well, 
and quite strong, though I shall probably gain more 
strength as time passes. 

Yours, Mary H. D. 

Milton Mills, N. H., November, 1882. 
Brother Cullis : 

I feel it a duty and privilege to write you that I am 
healed in answer to the prayer of Faith. I came to 
your office October 26, 188 1, and you prayed for me. 
My disease, you said, was chronic, and it had been pro- 
nounced so by others. I commenced to "amend from 
that hour." It was several weeks before I could say I 
was healed. When doubts or fears tried to assail me, 
I would praise the Lord, and say, " Help thou mine 
unbelief." I can say to His praise to-day, I am healed. 
I have not enjoyed such good health since I was a 
child. I desire to praise and glorify Him continually. 
Yours in Christ, S. Mittie H. 

Berwick, Me., September 12, 1882. 
Dear Brother : 

You requested those who were healed at Old Orchard 
during last meeting, to write you how they are getting 
along. My daughter Edith was healed of spinal and 
nervous disease. She is twenty years old and has 



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never been strong. When seven years old she had 
scarlet fever, which left her with St. Vitus dance which 
lasted a year. From that time she has had severe 
sick headaches. About three years ago they became 
so bad that she would lose her senses and faint. The 
doctors then decided it was spinal trouble. About 
eight weeks before your Convention commenced, she 
was taken with it again and continued to grow worse, 
(in spite of all the doctors could do,) till she was an 
object of pity ; every nerve in her body was in motion, 
her spine was so tender she could not bear the least 
touch on it without causing severe pain ; at times she 
lost her reason so she was a complete wreck. I was 
persuaded she could be cured by none but God. I wrote 
Brother McKenney, of Portland, asking him to pray for 
her, (also Brother Corez, our former pastor,) that she 
might get better so I could get her to your meeting. 
Her back, she says, was cured at once, but her nervous 
trouble began to be better and has nearly all gone. I 
can see just a little twitching in her hands and about 
her mouth once in a while ; she has gained very rapidly 
in strength and flesh. Her faith is strong, and she 
wants to work for Jesus who has done so much for her. 
She can walk as well as she ever could. It has caused 
great wonder here, as it is something new to the people. 
Pray for her that her nerves may be made strong so she 
will not show any of the old trouble. It is indeed a re- 
markable cure. To God be all the glory ! Praise His 
dear name. 

Your sister in Christ, 

Mrs. Nancy F. L. 



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4721 Green St., Germantown, 

November 15, 1882. 
Dear Doctor Cullis : 

I owe you an apology for not writing before, and 
letting you know of the blessing which followed your 
visit on the 21st of last April, as well as returning my 
heartfelt thanks for your great kindness. My recovery 
for several days after your visit was a disappointment, 
it seemed so slow ; but I very soon began to realize that 
I was making rapid progress, and without a single un- 
pleasant symptom. From the day that you visited me 
to the present time I have had no trouble with my di- 
gestion, which for me is remarkable, as all my life I 
have been subject to severe attacks of dyspepsia, which 
have continued weeks and sometimes months. Physi- 
cally, I seem completely renewed ; mentally, not quite 
equal to my former self ; but spiritually, I can truly say 
that the growth and improvement is wo?iderfuir My 
heart is at all times full of thanksgiving and praise. I 
know what the Saviour meant when He said, a Ye in me 
and I in you, " for I am never without the consciousness 
of His presence. When He gave me back my health, I 
felt that there was a meaning in it, and I asked with 
great earnestness to be used in saving souls, or in any 
way which would glorify Him ; He has used me, and 
every day do I receive answers to prayer, which are 
wonderful. I am constantly being taught deep spiritual 
lessons, sometimes through His Word, sometimes di- 
rectly from Himself, which feeds my soul and fits me 
for the battle of life. I do not suppose that mine is 
an uncommon experience ; indeed I know that it is not, 
but our own seems more real. I have written you all 



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this, because I want you to know all that you were 
instrumental in accomplishing when you placed your 
hand upon my head and offered that wonderful 
prayer, the memory of which will never leave me. God 
gave a larger measure pressed down, heaped up, and 
running over in answer to that petition. 

Mary D. P. 

P. S. It has just occurred to me, that you may have 
no idea who Mary D. P. is. Miss Siminton brought 
you to see me when you were here last April. I think 
it was thejirst house you visited that afternoon, and you 
had to wait until the attending physicians left. 

Boston, October 7, 1882. 
Three years ago last winter I was taken sick with 
inflammation of the throat, which physicians called 
bronchitis attended with neuralgia. I was treated for 
it, would be more comfortable at times, and then again 
worse, until, one year ago last winter, my physician 
discovered a tumor growing on the roots of my tongue, 
which caused great suffering. It was very difficult for 
me to swallow. I could not eat enough to keep up my 
strength, though taking tonics and other medicines. 
One year ago last July, my physician advised me to go 
to Portland and consult a physician who was called 
very skillful. He said the tumor must be removed by 
using powerful caustics. I was treated in that way 
until last spring. While under that kind of treatment 
I suffered intensely and was obliged to take opiates. 
Last summer I consulted a number of celebrated physi- 
cians ; they said they thought I was incurable. I con- 
tinued to fail ; when I came to Boston last August 



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I was very feeble. I then discontinued all medical 
treatment. I read a great number of books on faith, 
and the many wonderful cures that had been performed 
through the prayers of Dr. Cullis and other Christian 
people. I found it was in accordance with the Bible. 
I read the fifth chapter of James, 14th and 15th verses : 
" Is any sick among you ? let him call for the elders 
of the Church; and let them pray over him, anointing 
him with oil in the name of the Lord ; and the 
prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall 
raise him up ; and if he have committed sins, they shall 
be forgiven him." I believed the promises of God 
with all my heart. 

On the fifth of September I was led to call on Dr. 
Cullis to pray for me to be healed. I was blessed 
spiritually, and physically there was a change ; from that 
time my health began to improve ; the tumor began 
to diminish in size. Two weeks from the time I 
called on Dr. Cullis, the tumor came off in pieces. My 
appetite is good, I can eat solid food, which I have not 
been able to do for more than one year and a half. 
My health has improved wonderfully. I can walk a mile 
or more without fatigue. I do praise the Lord with all 
my heart for what he has done for me. I give God the 
glory. Mrs. S. M. S. 

Benton, N. H., February 7, 1884. 
Dr. Cullis. 

Dear Sir, — It is with great pleasure that I write 
you about my sickness and recovery by prayer and 
faith, and I hope it may prove a great blessing to some 
poor sufferer, In September, 1881, I was thrown from 



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a carriage and injured my spine. My health was very 
poor through that fall and winter, but I was able to be 
about the house. In the spring I was completely pros- 
trated. The liver, kidneys, and lungs were thoroughly 
diseased. Internal displacement, with my spinal trou- 
ble, made a pretty hard case. After being prostrated 
for two months, I could only sit up long enough to have 
my bed made ; but at the end of ' that time I became 
worse, and for days my life was despaired of. After a 
time I commenced to gain very slowly, but could not 
be raised up or hold my head up. A year before this 
time, I lost my voice, and did not regain it until two 
weeks ago It has been a year since I have tried to be 
a Christian, but I was not fully converted until August, 
1883- Then it was through a dear brother in Christ. 
It seemed as though God sent him to me, to make the 
way plain for the salvation of my soul. Since then, I 
have tried to serve God with all my heart. I had been 
thinking for some time that I would write to you, for I 
had made up my mind that there was no help for me 
unless by the power of God. It was Christmas day 
that you set to pray for me. That day I noticed no 
change, but knew it was on account of my lack of faith. 
I read the little book you sent, a great many times, and 
prayed over it also for increased faith. I never had 
felt as though it was right for me to pray to be healed 
until Sunday evening the twentieth of January, 1884. 
After all had retired for the night, I commenced to 
pray, first, for my sins to be forgiven. I felt as though 
I had rather have that prayer answered than to have 
the best of health. I then prayed to be healed, if it 
could be the Lord's will ; but if not, I was willing to lie 



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upon a bed of sickness. I prayed after this manner a 
good part of the night. In the morning, when my hus- 
band arose, I told him what I had been doing. He 
asked if I thought it would do any good. I told him I 
thought it would, but I did not expect God would an- 
swer my prayer so quickly. I asked my husband to 
raise me up, which he did not dare to do, because it 
had always caused me suffering. I then told him to 
put his hand under my head and see if I could raise it 
up, but I could not raise it a particle. He then went 
to breakfast, and I continued to pray. In one half 
hour after he left the room, I felt strength come into 
my back and neck ; and there, alone, I arose directly 
and sat up. I called my husband and others in the 
house. They were terribly frightened at first, but I 
told them not to be frightened, for I was healed. In a 
few minutes my voice came, and I talked aloud readily 
for the first time in almost a year. I was dressed, and 
part of the day sat up in a chair. I took a few steps 
by being held up. I had no pain, only felt very weak. 
It is now nearly three weeks, and I am comfortable 
and daily gaining strength. 

Your unworthy sister, 

Mrs. W. W. E. 



Georgetown, D. C., March 18, i£ 
Dear Dr. Cullis : 

A few years ago, my daughter lay on her bed, a great 
weight attached to her limb, treated for hip disease. 
The doctor told me she could never be cured. After 
months of suffering, with no improvement, I turned to 
the Great Physician. Through my friend Russell 



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Sturgis we arranged with you an hour for meeting 
at the Mercy Seat, and asked for her recovery. From 
that time she began to recover, and in a short time was 
up, and now is well and strong. This child to-day made 
a public profession of her faith in Jesus. I want to ask 
your prayers for her again, that this life given back 
may be spent wholly for the dear Master. Will you 
remember her at your next Tuesday's meeting, and ask 
for a full consecration for her ? 

With kindest regards, I am very sincerely 

Your friend in Jesus, 

Mary C. B. 

Richland Centre, Bucks Co., Pa., 

Jan. 26, 1883. 
Dear Bro. Cullis : 

Yours received. On Tuesday, January 16, at 3 p. m., 
the hour appointed by you, about a dozen Christian 
friends met at the house of Mrs. Kate Graver, of Qua- 
kertown, who has been sick for about five months, from 
a cancer on the womb, suffering indescribable pains 
from the same ; and after praying forty -five minutes, she 
felt a thrill pass through her whole body, when, un- 
knowingly, she leaped out of her bed, fell upon her 
knees, and began to praise God for what He had done 
for her. She then dressed herself, went downstairs, 
and ate a hearty supper. Since then she has visited 
some of her friends here in town, and done different 
kinds of work. To God be all the praise. 

Yours in Christ, 

F. G. S. 



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Sheldon, Vt., Oct. 26, 1884. 
Dear Brother : 

We would express our thanks for the benefit received 
in answer to united prayers last July. My wife was 
healed of a bad fall and broken ribs, so that in a few 
days she did a heavy washing. She has labored and 
travelled with me over the roughest of roads to attend 
protracted meetings, testifying to the healing power of 
the Lord. My faith has been increased. 

Yours in Christ, O. R. 

1853 Darien St., Philadelphia, 

April 23, 1883. 
Dear Brother : 

I will answer your letter in regard to the sister who 
was healed so wonderfully. She was sick for twelve 
years, had nine doctors, and spent a great deal of 
money, but received no benefit. On the 3d of April 
she took her case to the Great Physician ; prayer was 
offered for her and she was healed at once. She was 
suffering with womb and throat trouble, and also ner- 
vousness. She is well and grows stronger every day. 

The other sister that was prayed for last week is also 
entirely healed. She has been unwell for ten years. 
Three years ago she took a cold which settled in her 
throat and lungs. She had consumption, but is now 
entirely healed and can speak and sing as never before. 
Yours in Him, 

Rev. L. Frank Haas. 



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CHAPTER IV. 

FAITH CURE. 

The following letter is copied from the Burlington 
Hawkeye. It was written to an inmate of the family of 
the editor of that paper. The editor vouches for its 
" entire authenticity and for the trustworthy character 
and previous history of the healed invalid." 

" I have something to tell you that shall make you 
very glad and cause you to rejoice with us, and give 
thanks with us to the Lord for His loving-kindness and 
this exercise of His power. I was healed on the 3 ist of 
October, and am now perfectly well. You can scarcely 
comprehend the matter, I know. But although it is a 
long story, I shall gladly relate it to you. On the 14th 
of September the dear Lord showed me by His Word 
that He would Himself make me well again. I was 
not praying for health, but just waiting to see what He 
would tell me about that, as well as other things — so 
He made me see that Jer. xxx. 12, 13, was literally 
intended for me. Then I asked Him for a little word 
in addition, to confirm that, and also to show me it was 
not because I was impatient, that He was going to per- 
form such a miracle on my poor, helpless, diseased, 
and incurable body. So immediately He gave me 
2 Thess. i. 10-12. Look at it! 'This calling ' would 



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but 'fulfil all the good pleasure of His goodness/ 
and as regards the manner of the cure, it would 
be 'a work of faith and power/ and how good of Him 
to add that it would glorify His name ! That was 
what I wanted most of all. Well, I felt very thankful 
then, and earnestly prayed that He would be the same 
to me, and do the same for me that He had while I lay 
there suffering, after He would restore my health and 
strength, and also make me an hundredfold more fruit- 
ful for Him then. He very graciously promised all 
that and more. The next time dear mamma came into 
my room I had good news for her. But although she 
did not doubt God's power, nor my faith, she thought it 
too good to be true, and feared that God was soon 
going to take her child to Himself and heal her per- 
fectly then. 

" I did not know how, nor when He would restore 
me, whether instantaneously or gradually ; but as the 
days passed swiftly, I felt that the time was near when 
He would cure me ; that He was nearly through with 
teaching me in the school of pain. 

" There were two other remarkable facts in connec- 
tion with this period : One was, that whereas He used 
to teach me much on almost every other subject out of 
His Word, about healing by faith He taught me very 
little, just enough to satisfy me pi-o tern. Now, the 
whole Bible seemed fairly to teem with heavenly 
teachings about it. He had kept me in comparative 
ignorance hitherto as regarded it, for some wise, loving 
purpose. Now He showed me what I needed when 
His time was fully come. 

" The other thing was, that as soon as He told me 



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He would heal me sometime, the pain became even 
worse in my body. (The pain in my head could hardly 
get worse than it was all the time.) All the old and 
most painful sensations returned to me in a body, but 
with keenly aggravated severity ; and if possible the 
symptoms were even more fatal than ever, the doctor 
said. This condition remained so until the moment I 
was healed. But that did not shake my belief in the 
promise of my Lord in the least. I told very many of 
my friends that the Lord was going to restore me to 
health and asked them to pray confidently for it, know- 
ing assuredly that it was His will. I was especially 
anxious to ask those who were weak in faith and little 
children, to pray for it, surmising that the answers to 
their prayers might strengthen their faith. Well, I 
just waited from day to day, learning of Him and 
watching to hear and see what He next wished me to do. 
"About the second week in October, perhaps, a kind 
friend came to me with a book entitled The Prayer of 
Faith, by Miss Carrie F. Judd, of Buffalo, New York. 
I liked it very much. Her "complaint was somewhat 
like mine, so I felt I was not quite so much alone in 
this matter. I had heard and read of Dr. Cullis' great 
work in Boston, and was much interested in it. On 
October 20th God showed me that I must write to 
him and Miss Judd, to tell them my case and ask them 
to pray for me too. (Papa wished them to pray for 
him also, and they did.) Miss Judd said, that on 
November 2d they would pray for us at their faith 
meeting held at 8 p. m., and wished us to pray too at 
that hour. Dr. Charles Cullis merely said that he 
would pray for us at 3 p. m., October 31st, 1882, — it 



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was on Tuesday. I had two or three days in which I 
might ask ' the boys and girls ' away from home, and 
several other dear friends, to remember us at these 
hours. 

" On Tuesday at 3 o'clock, October 31, all who 
were at home went into their several rooms to pray, 
only mamma came* in with me. Another lady who 
came unexpectedly, remained where she was and 
prayed too. I did not pray much : I only asked the 
Lord to pour out His Spirit upon each of us, and told 
Him that I was just waiting for Him to speak to me. 
I knew that He would tell me something of special im- 
portance on that day. So I was glad to wait for Him. 
6 He never faileth ! ' I was very happy and quietly 
trustful while I looked up into His face and waited for 
His voice. Nor did I wait in vain, for very sweetly 
and impressively the Holy Spirit whispered many, 
many precious promises out of the Word of God, which 
were encouraging and reassuring to my heart. At the 
end of half an hour mamma asked me, ' How do you 
feel now, dear ? ' i Not any better, the pain is excru- 
ciating/ I replied. 'What are you going to do ? ' she 
inquired earnestly. I could only say that I was not 
going to do anything, because He did not tell me to do 
anything. I was just waiting for His special word. 
Then I repeated for her the last verse He had given 
me : ' Though it tarry, wait for it ; because it will surely 
come, it will not tarry, (Hab. ii. 3.) So we both waited 
the more patiently and gladly, and she prayed on 
fearing somewhat lest our unbelief should hinder the 
blessing from coming on her child, (as she told me 
afterward.) In a minute this was the next text that He 



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spoke to my soul : * Watch with me one hour.' You 
see He was with me, waiting and watching. He too 
acknowledged it nicely, didn't He ? Wtll, I just 
whispered these, His words, into dear mamma's ear, 
and she looked up, grave, and yet smiling, so she said : 
' Maggie, I've just had a glimpse of the dear Saviour 
bending over the sleeping disciples, and saying sadly : 
" Could'st thou not watch with me one hour ? " ' I was 
certain then that He could not keep us waiting for more 
than an hour without speaking to me His special words. 
He continued to speak slowly and -sweetly, as usual, 
His precious words ; and after twenty minutes this came 
cheerfully : ' Behold, thy King cometh unto thee ! ' 
(Luke ix : 9.) It was so good. I knew He would not 
be long then, and that He was coming to me in all His 
heavenly beauty, power, and glory. Directly this : ' Be 
strong and of good courage and do it ; fear not, nor be 
dismayed, for the Lord God, even my God, will be with 
thee. He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou 
hast finished all the work for the service of the house of 
the Lord,' (1 Chron. xxviii. 20.) Note all its sweetness 
and encouragement. You may see too that by this He 
showed me that presently He would have me ' do - 
something r and also the gracious promises of His 
presence, and help, were to last not only till I had per- 
formed that one act that He would later speak of, but 
until I had ■ finished all the work' for Him in this 
world. 

" I knew where to find the verse and lifted my Bible 
to find it once more, and after I had laid it down 
beside me again, this came brightly to my soul : ' Be- 
hold the bridegroom cometh ! ' and again, ' Behold the 



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bridegroom ! ' ( Go ye out to meet Him ! ' It was an 
unmistakable command. This was what I had waited 
for. So I just rolled the bedclothes off me. He had 
just given me strength to do it. I was sure He would 
not mock me by asking me to do a thing and then with- 
hold the necessary power. So I looked up to Him for 
more strength, and although not feeling any stronger, 
I moved my feet towards the edge of the bed, then sat 
up in bed, and then stood on my feet. It just seemed 
then as if I were lovingly clasped in the bridegroom's 
embrace. How nice it was ! I felt how much nobler 
it was to stand beside Him, having His dear arms 
around me, supporting me, than it had been before to 
lie quietly in them. Well, you will wonder if the 
strength came all at once, so I shall tell you minutely. 
I at first got just strength enough to remove the 
clothes, then, as I tried, more came to move my help- 
less feet ; then w T hen I made the effort to sit up, He 
helped me ; He, just bore me up ; and lastly (I 
wanted to obey the last part of his command and -go 
out to meet Him ') I tried to stand, and He once more 
just raised me to my feet. I felt no peculiar sensation 
whatever ; the strength did not seem to come at all, but 
when I stood up, I felt strong in the Lord, and He 
supported me that I did not even tremble, and the 
pain had all vanished. How it went, I can scarcely 
tell you. I was not thinking much about it even, 
although it racked and tortured my body and head, 
and it passed away mysteriously while I was in the act 
of rising. I was healed by Himself. I just obeyed 
Him simply, and He honored me for taking footsteps 
by faith, not by sight, by delivering me from all my 



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pains. It was all done in half a minute, and I stood 
there perfectly healed ! Dear mamma, when I made the 
first motion, moved back a little and gazed at me, awed 
and speechless. After I had been standing for half a 
minute perhaps, she comprehended it fully, and sprang 
to my side, calling the others in to praise the Lord for 
what He had done for us. She said afterwards that 
she 'felt as if the dear Saviour were in the room in 
person, raising her dead daughter to life/ and some 
others have since said that if I really had been dead, 
they could not have been much more surprised at the 
miraculous restoration. When Charlie and the others 
ran in, we all knelt just where I was, and mamma first 
gave thanks, then I did. We thanked Him for the ill- 
ness, for all that He had been to me and done for me 
during that time, for all that He had taught me, too, and 
finally for the restored health ; and anew I consecrated 
'body, soul, and spirit' to His blessed service forever. 
Then I looked up to Him to give me strength to arise 
again, and He did, of course ; and as soon as I was on 
my feet again His word came, bidding me walk out to 
the diuing-room in His strength; so I took my first 
step. I walked out pretty steadily, and not very slowly, 
to papa's couch. Mamma put her arm around me r but 
I dared not lean on her. I was walking in the Lord, 
and in the power of His might. I knelt again with 
papa for a minute or two, and then a chair was brought 
and I sat there comfortably for an hour. And the 
bright light did not hurt my head in the least. ' O give 
thanks to the Lord, for He is good. To Him who 
alone doeth wonders, for His mercy endureth forever.' 
Previous to my healing, for many months, whenever 



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the light would shine anywhere n.ear, it would make 
every part of my body as stiff as a board, and every 
muscle and nerve would be strained to its utmost ten- 
sion for about twenty minutes, more or less, when in an 
instant all would relax, and I would be perfectly ex- 
hausted. Now, however, it did not even dazzle my 
eyes, but I was delighted to look at it and everything 
else. * 

" I had tea with the dear ones around the table that 
evening, and fed myself. I lifted the teaspoon and 
even the cup to my lips without pain or difficulty. 

"What was remarkable, too, was the fact that as 
soon as I was healed, my hands and feet, which had 
formerly been as cold as death, like as a corpse (it was 
impossible to get any heat in them by steaming or rub- 
bing or in any other way), then became warm and pink, 
and any one could just see the new, warm life-blood 
coursing through the hands and feet. It made me 
realize His promise in Job xxxiii. 24-26. That evening 
all the friends and neighbors seemed electrified with 
pure gladness. The children ran hither and thither to 
tell every one ' Maggie Scott can walk.' ' Poor Maggie 
Scott can bear the light. ■ 'Dear Maggie Scott is 
better,' etc., etc. I did not know they loved me so 
much. We had a most delightful praise meeting at 
Mount Joy that night. The Holy Spirit helped us all 
to rejoice and give praise. I sat up for three or four 
hours there. I had three hours of sweet, restful, 
dreamless sleep that night. Next day I was stronger, 
but had to take every step on His strength — I had 
none of my own, nor have I yet, but I can walk nicely 
all through the house, and up and down stairs too. 



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I have had five lovely drives — the first one on Novem- 
ber 3, with Uncle Dannie Munro. I am getting 
stronger every day, and am as happy and trustful as 
ever, and He is keeping me lowly and humble too. 
I praise Him for that. My prayer is Psa. xc. 15, 16, 
18. " — Mount Joy Farm, Martintown, Ontario. 

N. Industry, Ohio. 
Dr. Charles Cullis. 

Dear Brother : I write you this eve to tell you that 
a direct answer to prayer came in behalf of my little 
nephew. Quite a number of anxious ones united their 
faith with yours at the hour appointeS, and the faith of 
the little one was wonderful. After we received your 
letter, and had told him, he was very much pleased, 
and said, " After Tuesday I will walk.' 1 Remember 
he had not walked for five months, and his spells were 
getting so hard that his mind at times seemed almost 
destroyed. He had not worn any clothes during this 
time. 

Well, at four o'clock he arose from his bed, and told 
his grandma he wanted his clothes. She said to him, 
" Do you think you can walk? " He answered " Yes/' 
and started across the room. We then dressed him, 
and he walked all over the yard, and has been walking 
ever since. Yes, I want to tell you, too, that he had 
not fed himself during his sickness ; but that evening 
he went to the supper table and participated in the 
meal with the rest of the family, and has not missed 
being at the table but once since. We have great rea- 
son to rejoice in God for delivering us out of so great 
an affliction. It has been done for some noble purpose. 



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Nothing of so miraculous a nature ever happened in 
our community. It has strengthened the faith of 
believers, and broken down skepticism. His case was 
looked upon as being hopeless, but, thank God, he 
lives, and goes about as a little missionary, telling 
everybody that "faith was his cure." Brother, will you 
pray the Lord to make him a useful man ? 

May the dear Lord bless you in your work, is the 
sincere wish of your sister in Christ, 

Emma L. Stands: 

Chicago, April 15, 1883. 
Dr. Cullis : 

My more than brother, I received the answer to my 
request for my daughter, the time set for prayer being 
Tuesday. It was a day to be remembered ; the Lord 
was very near to us ; oh, what a holy calm and peace 
there was upon us. My daughter through faith was 
able to throw away all the drugs and medicines, saying 
she would not need them any more. She went to bed 
that night and slept sweetly, something she has not 
been able to do in four years. 

She commenced to improve from the hour of prayer, 
gradually but surely. The terrible pain in the small of 
the back left at once. 

The granulations and ulcerations, combined with 
high inflammation of the throat, which she has had for 
three years, are gone. Yes, the throat that has caused 
me so much anxiety is well. Glory to God ! 

God bless you, my dear brother Cullis, keep you in 
perfect health, and spare you many years to do good, 
and to honor and glorify Him, who is all and in all to 
me. Yours, with respect, Mrs. C. D. B. 



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Cleveland, Ohio, October 13, 1884. 
Dear Dr. Cullis : — 

It has come forcibly to mind that I am indebted to 
my Saviour to state to you in as few words as possible, 
how God has answered prayer for the benefit of all be- 
lievers, and also to the building up of God's children in 
their faith in the promises of God's Word. 

You will recollect, in the Fall of 1879 I wrote you 
from Michigan, asking an interest in your prayers for 
my sick and deranged daughters, the oldest at her 
home in Michigan with a family of five children. The 
windows of her room were boarded to keep her from 
breaking through. The single daughter had been at 
the hospital for three years with no hope of her recov- 
ery. About one week after I had written you, my 
eldest daughter began to be more quiet and soon be- 
came so well, that my wife and I returned to our home 
in Cleveland, and after about six weeks we received a 
letter, written by herself, showing not the slightest symp- 
tom of insanity. My heart rejoices in such a God 
and such a Saviour. 

You no doubt remember that at several different 
times I have sent small donations for disposal in your 
charitable institutions, at the same time asking an in- 
terest in your prayers for my other daughter, who was 
still insane and in the hospital. And now the good 
Lord has given to me and my wife, in our old age, the 
great joy and pleasure of having our dear daughter 
with us since the second of May, 188 1, with no sign of 
insanity since that time. What abundant reason we 
have to go on our way rejoicing in such a Father and 
such a Saviour, who can, and does, and will heal even 



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to the uttermost both body and soul of those who can 
take him at his word. As for me and my house, we 
will forever trust and rejoice in the triune God. 

Yours in the bonds of Christian love, 

John K. 

(From the Christian Standard, Philadelphia.) 
FACTS, NOT THEORY. 

RUTH L. DYER. 

I read in the Standard, March 10th, an article entitled 
" Are the gift and grace of faith two distinct matters ? " 
by Rev. A. Atwood. 

I had been an invalid for over nine years. My dis- 
ease baffled medical skill ; it became chronic and was 
pronounced incurable. Sisters came to me from dif- 
ferent parts (my husband being a Methodist preacher, 
our acquaintance was somewhat extensive) referring to 
persons who had been healed by faith. I asked the 
Lord to heal me, "if it was His will." This had been 
my training from a child. I kept on asking with an 
uncertain doubt in the request until the sixth of March, 
1882, when the Holy Spirit revealed to me that God 
was willing to heal me. I turned at once to the written 
Word. This only confirmed my conviction. The con- 
dition was to quit all medicines, which I did at once, 
and accepted Christ as my Physician. It never oc- 
curred to me now to ask " if it be Thy will," for I had 
the assurance that it was. My faith was not strong- 
enough to claim perfect healing at once ; but when the 
sinking feeling came, I just asked Him to remove it, 
and it was gone. I had been relying upon strong stimu- 



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lants previous to this when severe pain came ; now, 
while I was asking, they were gone. I clearly realized 
that what God requires of His children is full surrender 
to Him to be wholly His, and then trust Him for every 
thing, yes, to remove pain and disease itself. I was 
enabled to say years before this, " His blood cleanseth," 
but now to realize His interest in my body to me was 
wonderful. My soul was filled with gratitude and 
praise. My husband wrote to Dr. Cullis of Boston, and 
others, to pray for my complete recovery. They prayed, 
and I was healed November 14, 1882. I acted faith by 
walking to church that evening. I realized the Spirit 
leading me in every step, and when my faith began to 
waver, these words were applied with force to my 
mind, " Is anything too hard for the Lord ?" My 
spiritual advancement has been as great as the physi- 
cal. We are only beginning to realize the possibilities 
of faith. Christ has said, " What things soever ye de- 
sire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, 
and ye shall have them." This was the promise by 
which I claimed both cleansing and healing. When 
God assures us that He will do a certain thing for us 
in answer to prayer, and confirms the assurance by 
doing it, I cannot see why our brother is (i afraid of 
such teaching." After we returned from church last 
evening, my husband was seized with neuralgia in his 
face so severe that sleep was impossible. It continued 
until after midnight. He asked me to pray for him. At 
once the conviction was inwrought by the Holy Spirit 
that God would remove that pain entirely in answer to 
the prayer of faith. In less than an hour it was entire- 
ly gone, and we were praising God for His condescend- 



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ing love. Matt, xviii. 19, came to our mind. I had 
just thought of it when he began repeating the words. 
How true it is, "that if two of you shall agree on 
earth, as touching anything they shall ask, it shall be 
done for them of my Father which is in heaven." 
Castle Shannon, Pa., March 12, 1883. 

Ridge Post, Davidson County, Tenn. 

Ridge, July 6, 1883. 
Mr. Cullis. 

Dear Sir : I received your last letter in which you re- 
quested particulars in reference to my healing by faith. 
When I wrote to you in February I had been suffering 
for about two years; the doctors termed it "nervous 
prostration." During twelve months everything a first- 
class physician ordered was done ; no money was 
spared to recover strength, but all failed. At the end 
of eighteen months I left the north and came south to 
Paradise Bridge, near Nashville, for rest and the invig- 
orating air. 

This also failed. I grew worse, each spasm of the 
stomach left me weaker, until at last I could only with 
difficulty take a ten-minutes' walk. For days together 
pain and weakness compelled me. to keep my bed. At 
that time I asked for your prayers. 

Receiving the mail only twice a week, it so happened 
that your answer reached me two days after prayer was 
offered in my behalf. 

Satan suggested, that in order to get well I ought to 
have joined in the prayer, and that after all I was too 
unworthy to receive such a favor. I remained two 



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days, struggling with my evil unbelieving heart, grow- 
ing worse in body at the same time. 

Then the Lord in his great compassion gave me 
grace to believe that the prayer of faith had been 
heard, and that consequently I must be well, and that it 
is my duty to call myself well. I then got up and went 
about my duties and have worked hard ever since. I 
recovered health on the seventeenth of February, 1883. 
All the praise belongeth to the great Physician who 
never faileth those who will trust Him. Every sufferer 
I would like to lead to the great Healer, who can heal 
body and soul. 

The Lord has made me perfectly well, and to Him 
belongeth my life henceforth. 

I remain yours most gratefully, 

Emma Eberhard. 

Wakefield, Aug. 23, 1883. 
Dr. Cullis : 

I was taken sick with brain fever in December, 1881, 
and was very ill, but got better so as to sit up, yet I 
was not able to do any work for seven months. My 
head was so confused that the rattle of a paper or 
sweeping with a broom would hurt me so, I would have 
to leave the room. Oh! how I suffered. I could not 
sleep nights, such was the pain in the top of my head. 
If we had a caller, or if any one out of the family 
would come in to talk awhile, I would be so nerved up 
it would take me all day to get over it. I would be 
talking on some subject and forget before I got through 
what I was saying. 

One of my neighbors, who had been to see you and 



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had been healed, wanted me to write you, so I prayed 
over it awhile, and, bless God, He gave me faith to 
believe I could be healed. I wrote you to pray for me. 
As I sat sewing one afternoon, it seemed as if a chill 
ran from my head to my feet, which left me very weak, 
and my headache, from which I had not been free for 
seven months, left me. I thought I would not say any- 
thing until next morning, for I always awoke with such 
a pain in my head. The next morning I arose without 
any headache. I have had no headache since, and am 
now as well as any one ; and oh how thankful I am ! 

Yours truly, Mrs. A. H. 

Center Strafford, N. H., Dec. 20, 1882. 
My Dear Brother in Christ : 

Another victory for Jesus is the restoration to health 
of Mrs. E. K. Meader of Rochester, for whom I re- 
quested yours and others' prayers in October last. She 
was given over to death by physician s, but is now 
attending to domestic duties and praising God. 

Glory to His blessed name ! I have been enabled to 
claim by faith perfect healing for soul and body, which 
is daily being evidenced to me. 

Yours in His love, Mrs. A. A. P. C. 

Church's Corners, Hillsdale Co., Mich. 

April 18, 1883. 
Dr. Cullis : 

Several weeks ago I wrote to you asking you to pray 
that I might be cured of scald-head. You set a time. 
Every trace of the disease has disappeared. 

Respectfully, Maria W. 



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Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 5, 

Nicollet Island, 1882. 
Dr. and Mrs. Cullis. 

Dear Friends : — Some three years ago I came to you 
after a service in Beacon Hill Place, asking prayers 
for the recovery of my dear mother, who had an ova- 
rian tumor which we thought could not be removed. 
After reaching my home in Minneapolis I wrote Mrs. 
Cullis about it. 

The tumor was wonderfully, and, we think, miracu- 
lously removed during this last winter, and dear 
mother is gaining strength and health each day. We 
regard her cure entirely in answer to prayer, and feel 
very grateful to the Lord and to you and Mrs. Cullis, 
His servants. Your friend, 

Mrs. C. E. E. 

Georgetown, Edmunds Co., Dak., Oct. 7, 1883. 
Dr. C. Cullis, Boston, Mass. 

Dear Sir : — Your card of the 24th ult., asking for 
" full particulars of my disease and healing,'' is before 
me. I have been troubled with piles for about fifteen 
years. Not knowing the nature of the disease, I con- 
tinued hard, heavy labor unceasingly, until hemorrhage 
and displacement became continual, forcing me to 
abandon work. I then commenced doctoring with rem- 
edies said never to be known to fail. Two years ago I 
was taken with a pain in the small of the back, which 
seemed to affect all the adjacent organs. I could get 
no relief from it with plasters, liniments, ointments, 
etc. Last March I came to Dakota, took a claim, 
bought a team and plow, and was determined to work. 



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But I could not, and was obliged to hire. My suffer- 
ing can only be understood by those who have endured 
similar misery. 

About the ioth of May last I received a letter from 
a dear friend in the East, informing me that you had 
named the 15th of May, at 3 p. m., as a time you and 
other "children of faith/' in different Eastern States, 
would especially pray for my healing. While you 
prayed for me I prayed for you that God would honor 
your faith. I had come to believe that He would bless 
me with physical strength again, but I could not set 
any time. From the 15th until the 21st 'I suffered 
much more than ever before ; but God in His great 
mercy remembered me, and restored me so effectually 
that the next day I went into a well, and threw clay 
nine feet high for a part of the day, without the least 
inconvenience. I did not do that as a test, but, in the 
arrangement of my work, it seemed absolutely necessary. 
From that day I have labored early and late without 
the return of disease. 

I have made this thus lengthy that you might under- 
stand the entire case. If you can use any part of it to 
the glory of God, my suffering will not have been in 
vain or too severe, "for His mercy endureth forever/' 
Sincerely yours, J. H. S. 

Bristol, R. L, June 12, 1884. 
Dr. Charles Cullis, Boston. 

Dear Sir : — I gladly comply with your request that 
I should give the particulars of my wonderful healing 
through the prayer of faith. 

For five years and a half I suffered intensely from a 



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complication of diseases. I was unable to lift or hold 
my child without succeeding illness and great suffer- 
ing. My limbs were partially paralyzed, so that I could 
neither go up nor down steps without assistance, and 
had to be lifted in and out of a carriage. About four 
years ago I was confined to my bed for nearly a year, 
and for ten months could not be raised to a sitting pos- 
ture. Since then I had been more helpless than 
before, and could not walk half a block alone. I had 
been under the care of one of the most eminent physi- 
cians in New York. In June (1883) my physician and 
a number of other celebrated physicians said that, with 
other complications, I had two fibrous tumors, so situ- 
ated that they could not be removed with any chance of 
saving my life ; that my case was hopeless ; that noth- 
ing remedial could be done for me. 

The morning after hearing this decision I received 
my first letter from a friend, who had been healed 
through the prayer of faith. Our tender Father directed 
her to write just at that time, when my heart was hum- 
ble before Him, and all earthly hope was gone. I had 
previously received letters and tracts from a dear 
friend, who had been praying for me for a long time. 
I was deeply interested, knowing that Jesus is just as 
willing and able to heal now as when He was on earth ; 
but I could not feel assured that the healing was for 
me. In this state of mind I wrote to you, asking you 
to pray that if God were willing to heal me, my faith 
might be increased. As the time appointed for prayer 
approached, I lay upon my bed in suffering and utter 
prostration. I tried to pray, but not a single promise 
could I claim. It almost seemed to me that in my 



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unworthiness and presumption I was left alone. I 
kneeled by the bed, and, as I did so, the blessed light 
came into my soul. Only those who have literally 
"been with Jesus" can understand the sweet com- 
munion of that hour. Then was given even to me the 
answer to that question, " How is it that Thou wilt 
manifest Thyself unto us ? " I had no need to lift my 
heart in prayer ; Jesus knew it all, and was graciously 
with me, and gave, me the blessed assurance that I 
should be healed. 

Many marked answers to prayer were granted dur- 
ing the summer. I was able, for the first time in years, 
to kneel in prayer without suffering. One night, when 
in extreme pain, I asked for strength to kneel, and the 
pain was all taken away instantly, and did not return 
through the night. From this time I was in some 
respects better, but I could endure no exertion. 

In October last I spent two days at the Faith Home 
in Boston. I had expected that in answer to prayer in 
my behalf, Jesus would grant some special manifesta- 
tion of healing, but I thank Him that there were no 
physical evidences of healing, until I could believe 
it done, because He had promised it. My first and 
sweetest lesson in the new life was that I must walk 
absolutely by faith. When my will was entirely given 
to Jesus, when I could rest with perfect assurance 
in His word, He led me in His own way. I had 
not expected the restoration of my limbs, but, looking 
to Jesus for the strength, I walked down the long flight 
of stairs at the Home, naturally and unaided. This I 
had not done before for years ; every attempt had 
resulted in absolute failure. One particular form of 



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suffering was in no degree relieved until two days after 
I returned home, when it was graciously taken away, 
and has not once returned. There was an entire 
change in my physical condition, and since that time 
I have been steadily gaining in strength. The relief 
from suffering is a subject of daily comment and grati- 
tude. I am able to attend church, to take long rides 
without pain or fatigue. I walk four or five blocks at 
a time, and go up and down stairs with perfect ease. 
Since the middle of November I have done the general 
work for my little family, hiring only occasionally. 
My strength has been severely tested by sickness in 
the family, and unusual duties, but there has been no 
return of the difficulty. During the winter I had a 
severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism. While we 
were praying for my relief, all pain and sensitiveness 
of the muscles were instantly taken away. 

The greatest blessing which has been bestowed is 
the consciousness of my Saviour's abiding presence. 
Each new day of comfort, enjoyment and helpfulness, 
is a gift direct from my Father's hand, and my heart 
is full of joy and happiness in Him. 

Again let me thank you for your interest and prayers 
in my behalf. May the blessings you seek for others be 
yours abundantly. 

Yours truly, M. D. E. 

Menasha, Wis., May 2, 1883. 
Dr. Charles Cullis, Boston. 

Dear Sir, — Among the many persons who write to 
you, I have some doubt as to whether you will remem. 
ber me, or the wonderful way in which our Heavenly 



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Father has dealt with me ; so I will give a brief 
statement. 

I wrote you the last of December, asking you to unite 
with us in prayer for my recovery to health. I had 
been a bed-ridden invalid with chronic bowel trouble 
for five and one-half years. 

The good Lord heard our prayers and healed me on 
that memorable Thursday evening, December 28, 1882. 
In a few days I wrote you a letter containing the good 
news. 

Since that time I have had no return of my 
trouble whatever, and have been and am gaining 
steadily and rapidly in strength. I have not yet fully 
regained a man's strength, but do considerable hard 
work, and work at something from morning to night. 
Gratefully, G. F. D. 

Lancaster, Mass., Feb. 10, 1883. 
Dr. Cullis. 

Dear Sir, — After your prayer for me the first time, I 
was helped very much, but after seeing you the second 
time I began to gain rapidly. I am now well. The 
trouble I had in walking has all gone. I put aside 
every remedy that I was using, and trusted fully. 

When I think of the Lord's great goodness tome, I 
feel my own unworthiness more and more. I hope 
others may be led to do as I have done, and believe 
fully. They will surely say, u He that promised is 
faithful." Yours truly, 

Mrs. R. W., Jr. 



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Ridge, March 19. 

You have prayed for me, and the Lord, according to 
His promise, has healed me from nervous prostration 
with which I had suffered so long. Neither medicine 
nor change of climate brought any permanent relief. 

The Lord has healed me by His mighty power in 
answer to His children's prayers. The name of the 
Lord be praised ! 

I remain in the bonds of Christian fellowship, 

Yours truly, E. E. 

So. Vernon, Vt., July 31, 1882. 
Dr. Cullis. 

Dear Brother in the Lord, — I write again to tell you 
how good the Lord is. He, from His throne of glory, 
has condescended to hear and answer our cry. The 
same compassionate Saviour of olden time ! The 
daughter for whom your prayers were requested, whose 
body was diseased, and whose mind was hopelessly de- 
ranged, was healed immediately in answer to your 
prayers, about the middle of the same week I wrote you 
regarding her. The mother's heart is full of gratitude 
to you and to her Father in Heaven. Her face beamed 
with joy when she told me her daughter was well. The 
daughter is away with her husband on a visit now, and 
I trust the glad story of her cure will be told wherever 
she is known. O, what a power we have in God, the 
Mighty One ! All glory and praise to His name for- 
ever ! The same week of this cure I felt that the 
Lord gave me a fresh anointing for the special work He 
had for me to do that week, in answer to your prayer. 



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May He continually bless and strengthen you in 
your wonderful and glorious work, is my prayer. 
Yours in the Lord, 

Mrs. G. F. G. 

Macomb, III., Oct. 16, 1882. 
Charles Cullis, M.D., Boston. 

Dear Bro. — You prayed for my wife October 10, 
at 3 p. m. Of course, I and others prayed for her. 
Your prayer has been answered. She is now very 
well, almost as well as ever so far as I can see. We 
are grateful to you for all your kindness. We give God 
all the glory. Sincerely, S. T. D. 

Dickinson Centre, N. Y., 

April 30, 1883. 
Dr. Chas. Cullis, Boston. 

Dear Brother, — The lady for whom prayer was 
offered at your Tuesday p. m. meeting was instantly en- 
abled to " arise and walk," and is constantly improv- 
ing. She had been unable to step for eleven years. 
Spinal difficulty. Your Bro. in Christ, 

B. G. Blaisdell. 

Bellefontaine, August 30. 
Dr. Cullis. 

Dear Bro. : Last October one year ago I wrote 
to you to pray for my healing. I was at the point of 
death with kidney disease ; could not be relieved by 
human aid. In this extremity I wrote you, and in 
answer to your faith and my own I was instantaneously 
healed. Praise the Lord ' I have never had any re- 



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turn of the disease since that time. I have been led 
often to tell my experience for the benefit of others. 

Yours in Christ, 

Emma Lockhart. 

Stanstead, P. Q., Sept. 28, 1882. 
Dear Dr. Cullis : — 

Last winter I requested you to pray for me that I 
might be healed from a disease of long standing, spinal 
and heart trouble, claiming the precious promise in 
James v. 15. I have been slowly gaining ever since. I 
write you about it, giving God the glory. 

Miss O. B. Libbey, 

Derby Line, Vt. 

Augusta, Me., Sept. n, 1882. 
Dear Brother in Christ : — 

I wish to tell you that in answer to prayer, God has 
healed me of all my diseases, praises be to His Holy 
Name. You remember a few weeks ago I wrote you 
requesting prayer that I might be healed. I have been 
out of health for many years, suffering from a number 
of diseases, but this summer I have been very sick. 
While upon that sick-bed I was led to claim by faith 
the promise in James v. 14, 15; and laying aside all 
medicine, and looking steadfastly to God, I immediately 
began to mend. My recovery has been very rapid ; my 
old complaints have all left me, glory be to God. I 
love to tell to every one what great things the Lord has 
done for me, for not only has He healed my body, but 
He has wonderfully blessed my soul. I claimed the 
Baptism of the Holy Ghost by faith, and I held on for 



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two weeks without any other evidence than a sweet 
peace and calm ; but at the end of that time, at the 
Richmond camp-ground, the Lord filled my soul with 
His Spirit in a wonderful manner, and He abides with 
me continually. Glory be to Jesus ! 
Yours in the faith, 

'Mrs. Anna M. Kennison, 

Cusnoe Heights. 

Fort Scott, Kansas, Sept. 21, 1882. 
Dr. Charles Cullis, Boston, Mass. 

Sir, — Mrs. Hos. Clark has requested of me a statement 
of her present condition of health. 

I gave her an examination a short time ago that 
enables me to state that there has been great improve- 
ment in her health since last year, and that she is now 
in good health. She informs me you have had a diag- 
nosis of her case from Dr. T. S. Todd, of Kansas City, 
Mo. She has been in very poor health for several 
years. Yours truly, 

G. R. Baldwin, M. D. 

Prescott, Ont., Oct. 10, 1882. 
To Dr. Cullis. 

Dear Dr. a?id Brother, — I have just received a letter 
from Mrs. William McLean, of Farmersville, in which 
she informs me her dear husband has returned from the 
asylum, has resumed his work, and seems quite well. 
When she received the letter, giving the appointed day 
and hour for united prayer, she commenced reading 
the epistle of St. James, and as she read, her faith was 
much increased. On Sabbath morning, still keeping 



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up family prayers, though all alone, God wonderfully 
blessed her; it was one of the happiest days of her life; 
already was the Lord answering prayer. On Tuesday, 
3 p. m., on her knees, with Bible open at James v., 
she said : " I felt God was very near, and that my hus- 
band would be home again." Now she bids me say to 
you, that her gratitude to you is beyond description. 
She prays you may be blest wonderfully through life, 
and your crown be very bright. 

Permit me also to say I shall never forget that 
Tuesday as long as I live. I saw the hand of God so 
plainly, felt His presence to be so sweet, His promise 
was so clear and precious, my heart praises Him. 

Yours in Jesus, 

(Rev.) Wm. Barnett. 

Mystic, Conn., Sept. 21, 1882. 
Dear Dr. Cullis : — 

It is now about two months since I was relieved of 
my grievous burden. I am now better than I have been 
for years. I lost over forty pounds in weight in less 
than four weeks, but have since gained over ten pounds 
of flesh. 

I enclose as a thank-offering a check for ten dollars 
($10). I wish it were a thousand times that ! With 
mu Ji gratitude for all your kindness to me, I am, 

Sincerely yours, M. H. D. 

Readfield, Nov. 16, 1882. 
Dear Mrs. Cullis : — 

I asked Dr. Cullis to pray that I might be healed of 
spinal trouble, which so much affected me as to make 



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walking and standing difficult ; that was three years next 
spring. I have said that I was healed, but conscious 
that care must be taken because not strong. Last 
October, after I saw you I went to New York with a 
friend, and we walked nearly all the time for five days. 
My friend often complained that her back was so tired, 
while mine was perfectly free from ache or pain. I 
contrasted the difference. When I visited Dr. Cullis, 
every step I took hurt me from my toes to the top of my 
head , now I can walk miles with no inconvenience. 
Praise the dear Lord ! 

Very truly, L. E. Arnold. 

Berwick, Me., November i, 1882. 
Dr. Cullis. 

Dear Sir, — Perhaps you remember several weeks 
since I wrote to you requesting your prayers for a sick 
neighbor who had been confined to her bed for eighteen 
months. Thinking you might want to hear from her, I 
write you. Your prayers have been answered in her 
behalf. She has so far recovered that she sits up 
nearly all day, and takes dinner with her family at the 
table where she has not been able to go for over 
eighteen months. She improves daily and is exceed- 
ingly thankful for your prayers and to her precious 
Saviour for His wonderful power. 

Yours sincerely, Miss F. D. 

P. S. — The name of the lady who has been healed 
is Mrs. Mary Ellen Watson. 



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Elkhart, Ind., March 28, 1883. 
Dr. Cullis. 

Dear Sir, — My daughter, at the time appointed for 
prayer, or a few minutes past, arose from her bed alone 
and walked out into the sitting-room, and walked 
around the house praising God with a loud voice. 
She had been unable to bear her weight upon her 
limbs for nearly fourteen months. We all rejoice in 
this manifestation of the Divine Power. 

Yours respectfully, 

J. B. S. 

Old Ladies' Home. 
Syracuse, N. Y., October 10, 1883. 
Dear Dr. Cullis : — 

My very dear friend Mrs. Mary B. Curtis asked you 
to pray for me that I might be restored to health. 
Doubtless she told you how great a sufferer I have 
been for a long time, with a complication of diseases. 

I will therefore only acknowledge to the glory of 
God, how preciously He has answered your prayer of 
faith. 

I received a letter from her informing me of what 
she had done. As I read these words, " He has prayed 
for you," the Spirit applied the promise, " The prayer of 
faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him 
up ; and if he have committed sins, they shall be for- 
given him/' with such power that I could not doubt 
that it would be done, and I at once began to act faith. 
At first it seemed as though it would surely kill me, but 
I kept trying till I felt truly that the Lord was girding 
me with strength ; and I find myself gaining steadily 



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day by day, and although so short a time has passed I 
can walk farther and endure more than at any time in 
two years. I am trusting for a perfect cure, giving God 
the glory day by day. 

About twelve hours after I got the witness that I 
should be restored to health, I received such a baptism 
of Divine love, that the will of God is sweeter to me 
than life itself. Your sister in Jesus, 

Jennie Wellman. 

January 8, 1882. 
Dr. Charles Cullis. 

Dear Friend, — I am happy to inform thee that I am 
healed of bronchitis. We had not 'been engaged in 
prayer more than twenty minutes before I felt the 
change and I expressed it, but did not that night 
positively claim the blessing, but it was plainly shown 
me that I must do it. So the next morning at the 
breakfast-table I did so, and I have not coughed or 
had any trouble with the disease since. This was the 
third attack I have had of bronchitis, and by far the 
most severe. I was taken with this attack seven 
months ago and have been suffering with it ever since, 
but more for the last two or three weeks than usual. 
I have had a great deal of work to do, both spiritual 
and temporal, visiting families, attending meetings, 
domestic duties, etc., and the weather being so dis- 
agreeable was another cause, I think, of my illness. 
The night of the prayer meeting I was so troubled 
with my cough and the clearing of my throat that it 
was difficult to read the chapter ; but, praise the Lord, 
He has taken it all away. 



134 OTHER FAITH CURES. 

Have I told thee of our blind friend's partial resto- 
ration ? She was suddenly enabled to walk during a 
prayer-meeting we had for her. She had not been able 
to stand upon her feet for nearly four months, and had 
to be helped as an infant all that time. During the 
prayer-meeting she arose from her bed, stood upon her 
feet, walked across the room, knelt beside her bed, 
offered a vocal prayer, sat down and sang a hymn, 
walked downstairs to dinner, walked up again, joined in 
a meeting of thanksgiving and praise, and has been 
engaged in her Master's service ever since. 

I remain thy sincere and grateful friend, 

Sarah C. Harris. 

Waston, Dec. 24, 1882. 
Dr. Cullis : 

Faith has taken hold on the promises with a strong 
grasp and has triumphed. On the 10th of December 
my sufferings were so great that my mind was affected; 
my pain was agony. I seemed compelled to use opium 
so much against my will ; I know a great change for the 
better came over me about the time my letter reached 
you. The promise is, " While they are yet speaking I 
will hear." It came to me that I should take off 
plasters, supporters, and also lay aside all medicines. I 
did, and trusted the Lord wholly, and found that acting 
faith was a great help to believing. I have been an 
invalid all my life, and have been given up to die sev- 
eral times ; but I heard a sweet voice that they did not, 
saying, "This is not unto death but for the glory of 
God." On Tuesday, the 19th, I felt the healing power 
going through every avenue of body, soul, and spirit. 



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I shall never forget the day. It was while you all were 
praying. Our pastor's wife came in that day about 
three o'clock ; she united her prayers with those of your 
meeting. During the day we had three seasons of 
prayer at the house, and the result was, after being 
so that I could not get out of the house for weeks, I 
went to our consecration meeting that night. To God 
be all the glory. There has a great overflow of spirit- 
ual life come to me that seems to permeate the other 
life. It is gushing out in tears of joy, praising, praying, 
shouting, Victory ! victory ! through our Lord Jesus 
Christ. S. A. B. 

Fort Scott, Kan., Sept. 21, 1882. 
Dr. Chas. Cullis. 

Dear Brother i?i Christ, — I am still well, and oh, so 
happy in the Lord. I became a little frightened a 
short time ago, fearing that I was going to have a re- 
turn of my old trouble. I sent for my family physician. 
He made an examination and said I was well. I got 
him to give me this morning a written statement. I 
enclose it. 

I wish I could do something to convince many others 
of the power of prayer. 

I am yours in Christ, 

Mrs. H. Clark. 

Sligo, December 19, 1882. 
Dr. Cullis. 

Dear and Respected Sir, — My daughter, for whom I 
wrote to you some time ago, was never in better health, 
and enjoys the firm belief that her cure is permanent. 



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My own voice, too, is greatly improved. I can join in 
the public worship and in home devotions. 

May I never forget my debt of gratitude to the 
"giver of all good and perfect gifts." 

Dear sir, I remain yours in Christian relationship. 

Mrs. E. S-, Sligo, Ireland. 

Wetona, Bradford Co., Pa., Sept. 8, 1883. 
Dr. Cullis. 

Dear Friend, — Rejoice with me, and thank God that 
He has answered your prayer in my behalf ! I wrote 
you to ask Him to save me from insanity and self- 
destruction. I had not been myself for several months 
(mentally), and when those terrible " spells " came upon 
me it did seem as if I must kill myself ! Those months 
were terrible. I was very bad the next day after I sent 
my letter, so bad that I had them send for Mrs. Dr. 
Gleason of Elmira (Water-Cure), an old friend, to learn, 
if possible, what was the matter. She and her husband 
(Dr.) came the next Saturday evening ; they found me 
very weak, but the next day investigated my case 
thoroughly, but gave no hope of recovery (which prog- 
nosis did not surprise me at all). This was the Sunday 
after I sent my letter (eight weeks ago last Tuesday). 
That night I slept nine hours, which I had not done be- 
fore, in months at least, and, what is more surprising, I 
kept right on sleeping comparatively well, better than 
for a long, long time, and am better in every way. I have 
had but few returns of that intense irritability, and these 
not very severe, and not the least return of the inclina- 
tion to destroy my life. I feel as if I had escaped 
from a horrible dungeon, and my heart is full to over- 



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flowing with gratitude to God for His compassion and 
this relief. There was no help for me except from Him, 
I am grateful to you for your interest, for I had often 
prayed, fully believing He would hear and help, and 
claimed His promises. Very gratefully yours, 

Cornelia Cailiff, 

San Francisco, July 16, 1884. 
Dear Dr. Cullis. 

Excuse my not having written you before, and allow 
me now to leave out dates and give the facts in relation 
to the healing of my arm in answer to your prayer. I 
had carried my right arm in a splint and a sling (most 
of the time both, and always in the splint) for nine 
years, when I first heard of the prayer of faith. I was 
like many others ; I thought the day of miracles was 
over, and at first gave it very little attention, and 
thought it was not for me if it was for others ; but the 
Lord was so good that He kept it in my thoughts and 
before my mind through others, until, with very little 
faith about it, I said to a friend (Miss Carter, a former 
matron of your Consumptives' Home) that she might 
write you to pray for my healing. When the time set 
by you came for us to pray, I had begun to hope and 
think how nice it would be to have my arm well and be 
free from pain. At the time I felt no differently from 
usual, except that my faith seemed to be increased ; but 
the next morning, after my arm had been bandaged as 
usual, I was standing in front of the grate, when I 
looked at it, splintered and bandaged and hanging in 
a sling, and I thought that did not look very much like 
faith in God. It looked more like faith in the old ap- 



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pliances, and I said aloud (though I was alone), "77/ 
trust the Lord" So I slowly unwound the bandage and 
took off the splint, and threw them into the fire. I never 
expect until I get home to Heaven to feel again as I felt 
at that moment ; the blessing was so great, and I knew 
in an instant that my arm was well. It felt a little 
weak for several days, but I used it right along, and 
have never had a particle of pain in it nor trouble with 
it from that day (some five years since, I think,) to the 
present moment. I never knew when the dislocation 
was reduced and my wrist came into place, but one day 
some one said to me, " Why, your wrist is straight." I 
looked at it, and so it was. You can realize, perhaps, 
something of the wonderfulness of this when I tell you 
that all the bones in my wrist had been broken ; there 
was a dislocation that left a sharp bone protruding on 
one side, and a hollow that you could lay your thumb 
in on the other ; the cords had been torn loose, and in 
healing, after severe inflammation, in consequence of 
my fall and bad surgery, a nerve had grown fast 
among the bones, making a condition of pain something 
like hitting your " crazy-bone." Sometimes the nerve 
would inflame, and the suffering would be intense, en- 
dangering my life, and causing partial paralysis of my 
whole right side. After three years of pain, you can 
imagine my joy at a perfect cure ; and to God I give the 
glory. Yours truly, F. P Church. 

Portland, Oregon, August 29, 1884. 
Dr. Chas. Cullis. 

Dear Sir, — It is with a heart filled with gratitude 
to God for his wonderful goodness to me that I once 



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more address you. I wrote to you nearly two months 
ago, requesting that prayers be offered for me at the 
meeting on the tenth of July, and I now write to tell 
you that the Lord heard and answered the prayer of 
faith. " Blessed be His holy name." Dear Christian 
friends met here at the same time, and prayed with and 
for me, and on the twelfth day of July, at half-past six 
in the evening, the conviction came to me with such 
positive assurance that I was healed, that I could no 
longer lie still, but immediately arose to my feet, fully 
convinced — yes, positively knowing — that God, for 
Christ's sake, had healed all my diseases, and I walked 
quite a distance from the house to tell my husband what 
the blessed Lord had done for me. Oh, what exultant 
joy filled my soul! To think that I, who had not been 
able to sit up an hour at a time for three years and a 
half, and for the greater part of that time had not been 
able to sit up long enough to eat my food, should be 
raised instantly to my feet ! I have not had occasion 
from the moment of my healing to lie down for an hour 
during the day, and I know that the Lord, in whom I 
trust, is able to keep me unto the end. O, what shall 
I render unto the Lord for all His benefits to me ! All 
that I am and all that I have is His, and my chief de- 
sire is that I may be led by His spirit in the way He 
would have me go ? and that the strength He has given 
me maybe spent for Him. Glory to His name. 

I wish to say that I have lived over ten years in 
Portland, and am well known, both in the church and 
in the world. I have not kept my healing a secret, and 
I pray that the Lord may use me as an instrument to 



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show forth His mighty power. Praying that God may 
bless and keep you unto His heavenly kingdom, I am 
Your sister in Christ, 

Mrs. Isabella D. 

Wellingford, Vt., February 2, 1883. 
Dr. C. Cullis: 

You may recall my writing you about a year ago, 
telling you something regarding my poor health, and 
asking you to pray for my recovery. Last summer I 
began to improve, and have continued to do so ever 
since. In answer to your own prayer, I do believe, and 
also because at that time I cast my case entirely upon 
Jesus as my Physician, trusting Him because of His 
promises. Immediately He began to effect a cure. The 
work and the praise are all His own. 

Respectfully, Miss C. M. T. 

San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 8, 1882. 
Dear G.: 

You know how we were led, some two years ago, to 
ask you to " go to Dr. Cullis, and tell him of your state 
of health, and go to the Consecration Meetings, and 
let us know all you could about Faith Cures." 

Now, we desire to return thanks to God for the help 
given us, through the prayer of faith for us in time of 
great need. 

I cannot tell of all the years, more than thirty, of 
constant suffering from an injured spine, heart trouble, 
the lameness of my hip from a hurt when a child, or 
the necrosis of my cheek-bone, so many years a source 
of severe pain. 



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For years I had committed myself and family to our 
Father's care, believing He alone could give me strength 
from day to day ; but, till you put the question, Why I 
did not seek for healing for myself, if I believed people 
could be healed by the " prayer of faith," I had not 
thought of asking. Truly, I received more than I ever 
asked for, but when my great trouble of Ella's illness, 
last fall, taxed my strength for so many weeks, I did 
then ask if it were God's will I might be helped and 
she restored to health. All our friends were sure I 
should break down, and wondered, day after day, that 
I kept up ; I was conscious of being upheld. Think of 
it ! not four hours consecutive sleep for five weeks, and 
during that time an attack of lung trouble to contend 
with ! I used no remedy but hot lemonade and com- 
press of hot water the first night. Ella sick with mala- 
rial fever and acute neuralgia, and this only three 
weeks after her recovery from pneumonia. All this 
time, my husband and myself, with the girls, were ask- 
ing help, and I knew it came ; still there seemed to me 
an unusual uplifting of mind, a sense of trust that took 
away the weariness; as Ella slowly recovered, I knew 
that the healing of my terrible headaches from the dis- 
eased bone was a fact. It is over a year since I have 
lost a day with one, more than a year since I have 
had the old spasms of the heart, and I seldom have 
enough lameness or spinal trouble to give up to for 
more than an hour or two at a time ; then a little rest 
restores me. I have walked more in the last six months 
than I had the past ten years. 

First I thought of the lady in Dr. Boardman's or 
Miss C. Judd's book, " who tried putting down her lame 



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foot/ 7 then tried to bear my own weight. Then came 
your letter, telling me that you had sent in a request 
for prayers for us and yourself, to Dr. Cullis. 

It came like a revelation, what had been such a won- 
der, that my poor petitions had been so wonderfully 
answered, — no longer a wonder, if joined by such a 
company of the faithful. God hears and honors those 
who are looking to Him, and it is a source of continual 
thanksgiving, this learning to know Him as the Lord 
who healeth all our infirmities. E. recovered very 
slowly, but after she commenced teaching again, was 
quite ill for several days. She has taken the Lord for 
her Healer, and now has just recovered from another 
attack of pneumonia, taking nothing but the hot lemon- 
ade and beef tea, with rest for two weeks; since then 
she has been well, and gone daily to her school. 

Again we must ask to return praise and thanksgiving 
for so many mercies, and prayers for a continuance in 
the faith. Yours truly, L. C. F. 

Prescott, Mass., Feb. 27, 1883. 
Mr. C. Cullis. 

Dear Brother i?i Christ: I wrote to you, if you 
remember, from Hillsboro' Center, N. H., requesting 
your prayers for a lady who had been confined to her 
bed for ten or eleven years. Not long after that she 
began to improve, was able to ride out, went to 
church several times, and came and spent the night 
with me. As I moved to this place a year and a half 
ago I hear from her only occasionally, but I think she 
remains as well as usual. I feel that God should be 



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praised for this. I regret that I have not written to 
you before in regard to this. 

Your sister in Christ, Mrs. E. A. A. 

Walnut Hills, Ohio, Nov. 4, 1882. 
Dr. Cullis. 

Dear Brother in the Lord, — I am one of the many 
who came to you as the Lord's servant for anointing, at 
Old Orchard healing meeting during the Faith Conven- 
tion Oh, howl thank and praise our dear Jesus that 
He has given me the realization of the promise there 
received. How good the Lord is ! Although not bed- 
ridden, I had been an invalid for many, many years, 
suffering from nervous prostration and other weakness. 
My friends, to whom the whole subject was new, 
thought perhaps the Lord would heal if the future was 
devoted wholly to His service ; but all work (even 
housekeeping) can be done as service to the Lord : 
" Whatsoever ye do, whether ye eat or drink, do all to 
the glory of God." He loves to bestow good gifts on 
His beloved children. 

Yours in love of Christ, M. L. 

Shelburn Falls, October 18, 1882. 
Charles Cullis, M. D. 

Dear Brother : At your request, I improve the first 
opportunity to give you an account of my long illness 
and miraculous restoration to health through your 
instrumentality and the power of God. 

July 15, 1880, I met with an accident, which resulted 
in an injury to the spine and the whole nervous system. 
While lying helpless in this condition I began to experi- 



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ence great difficulty in digesting my food, and partial 
loss of sight; and although employing the best medi- 
cal aid, I continued to grow worse until March, 1882. 
At this time, having been given up to die by my physi- 
cians, and being unable to take any food, not even a tea- 
spoonful of anything, I sought the aid of the Great 
Physician — the Lord Jesus, — my husband asking your 
petitions at the Throne of Grace in my behalf. March 
23 your prayer was heard and answered, and I was able 
to eat heartily. A hemorrhage of fifteen years standing 
was entirely healed; and although not strong,. I have 
been able to do mv work ever since, but have not had 
the use of my eyes, being unable to read, write, or sew. 
I called upon you October 4, 1882 ; then you again 
prayed for me, and my eyes were instantly restored, 
perfectly whole. 

Praise the Lord, I am now (October 18) in the enjoy- 
ment of health, with my vision unimpaired. 

Yours in the love of Christ, 

A. E. W., Mrs. M. D., Carrie P., 

E. C. F., Pastor of the M. E. Church. 

Stoneham, Oct. 27, 1882. 
Dr. Cullis. 

Dear Sir,— My heart throbs with love and joy as I 
sit down to write you that the dear Lord has healed me 
of the catarrh trouble and its effects, in answer to your 
prayer for me yesterday at Beacon Hill Place, for which 
I give thanks in this way. And I am not .surprised, for 
I expected to be cured, as, I complied with the rule, 
and believed the promise. I had prayed, myself, to be 
made well, but did not realize any benefit, and I came to 






ANSWERS TO PRAYER. 1 45 

the conclusion that it was my duty, as well as privilege, 
to go to you, and show publicly my faith. The Lord 
removed pain and sickness when I did not know 
of your place, or could not go, in answer to my prayer 
alone, plainly showing me that it is the duty of believ- 
ers to also bear up the hands and encourage those of 
his children who are called to any especial work. I 
have enjoyed health, done more work without tiring 
to-day than I have for a long time before ; and my soul 
is also happy, for which I give God praise. The ring 
enclosed is a small offering, the only gold piece I have, 
and that was a present, for I spend no money for such 
things. I trust I may be able to give more some time 
hence. H. A. C. 

Providence, Sept. 28, 1882. 
Dear Doctor Cullis : 

Two years before I met you at Douglass I had spinal 
meningitis. For three days I was very sick. On the 
third the doctor told me I had been very sick, and was 
not out of danger yet. I replied that I was aware of 
it ; he seemed surprised at my calmness. Then these 
words were given me : " He that loveth much is for- 
given much. He that asketh much receiveth much," 
and the hymn "Wonderful Words of Life." Never 
can I express in words how beautiful they sounded to 
me, and the wonderful assurance they gave me. I 
gradually grew better. Noted physicians said I would 
never be well again. So this proved, as time elapsed. 
Those words often came to me : " He that asketh 
much receiveth much." This led me to think of vou 



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and faith cure ; then these words, " In His own time 
and way." 

I went to Douglass, and there learned you were going 
to pray for the sick. I went without any hesitation, 
believing the time had come. As you knelt to pray, a 
sacred awe came over me, which was indescribable. 
Then came the test, which caused me a great struggle 
for nearly two days. Then came the wonderful bless- 
ing, and I was healed soul and body. Glory to God ! 
such peace as filled my soul! that peace that passeth 
understanding. Since then I have been able to do as 
much as a person of my age could be expected to do. 
Yours in Christ, Mrs, H. C. J. 

Joliette, P. Q., Canada, Nov. 7, 1882. 
Rev. and dear Doctor Cullis : 

I am now, to my great satisfaction, able to come and 
tell you how happy I am with the short interview I and 
my dear wife had with you on Oct. 23d last. Verily, I 
have felt in my soul very thankful to the dear Lord for 
having led us to you, and heard from you words of 
encouragement. 

My wife- has been well since you had the kindness of 
praying for her. I am sure the Lord will hear my 
humble supplications in your behalf. 

I am yours very sincerely and respectfully, A. C. 

AN EXPERIENCE OF HEALING BY FAITH. 

It is with the deepest gratitude I add my testimony 
with those who have come to recognize Christ as their 
Redeemer from physical as well as spiritual disease. 
I had been sick ten years from diseases peculiar to my 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER, I47 

sex, taking the form of chronic inflammation, displace- 
ment and ulceration, together with a tumor, and severe 
liver and kidney difficulty. For the most part I have 
been confined in bed, and for the last three years un- 
able to sit up any. I have had the best medical aid to 
be procured, some of the best in New England ; but 
although doing all in their power, physicians could give 
but slight temporary relief. I was reduced in flesh to a 
mere skeleton, suffering so much from dyspepsia that 
for weeks and months at a time I could take no nour- 
ishment except small quantities of bread, and coffee 
without milk or sugar ; and at such times I have been 
unable to turn myself in bed, my nerves and brain 
meanwhile being in such a sensitive condition that 
words cannot express my suffering. At times I would 
rally somewhat to a more comfortable condition, only 
to relapse, and sink lower than before. 

For five years I had had no expectation of ever leav- 
ing my bed alive, when, by seeing the account of the 
healing by faith of Miss Carrie F. Judd of Buffalo, 
N. Y., I w r as led, after earnest prayer for an increase 
of faith, to ask the prayer of Dr. Charles Culiis of Bos- 
ton in my behalf. I did not know at this time whether 
I ought to put aside all remedies ; but I asked God to 
make this plain to me, which He soon did, I being 
given to know that "with Him is all power.'-' I from 
that time felt no need of medicines, although entirely 
dependent upon them before. 

When prayer was offered (and I wish to state here 
that I had never met Dr. Culiis, and did not see him 
until able to visit him in Boston) I felt no better phys- 
ically, but such rich blessing came to my soul that 



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there was scarcely "room to receive it" My faith was 
to be tested. Faith is always tested, and by the test it 
is strengthened. For three months I held on to God's 
promise as given in James v. 14, 15, tempted of Satan 
continually to doubt His word, in that I was apparently 
growing worse, when one day the Spirit brought home 
to me with power Jesus' words, "What things soever 
ye desire, when ye pray believe that ye receive them, 
and ye shall have them." I at once saw my privilege, 
and believed I was healed, according to God's word, 
without any evidence in my body. His word was truth ; 
my feelings might deceive me. 

I wrote Dr. Cullis again, requesting him to join with 
me in asking that I might receive some evidence of 
restoration, and after a few days of waiting in simple 
trust, I was given strength to leave my bed ; and, all 
praise be to Him, I have not lain in bed a day since, 
now more than two years. Symptoms of disease have 
passed away, and strength has been restored gradually, 
my health being now better than for twenty years past. 
I can go long journeys, take long walks, and perform 
whatever labor is required. 

And now, glory to His name, He keeps me day by 
day, soul and body, as I look to Him in simple trust; 
and it is not only in the great things, but the small as 
well. Several times since my restoration have I been 
healed of severe colds in a few hours, and the last, a 
few weeks since, almost instantly. 

Let us come to Him in~chi-ldlike trust with all our 
cares, burdens, and sicknesses of soul and body, and 
find in the risen, living Christ a supply for every need. 
"All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth." 



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(i All things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believ- 
ing, ye shall receive/' " Heaven and earth shall pass 
away, but My words shall not pass away." Praise the 
Lord ! Mrs. A. A. P. C. 

Center Strafford, N. H., Dec, 1883. 

Dear Sir : 

According to your request I most cheerfully send 
you an account of healing by the prayer of faith. I 
had been a distressed invalid for over nine years. My 
diseases were chronic, — congestion and displacement. 
I had been under the treatment of nine physicians in all. 
My disease was pronounced incurable in 1878. I took 
medicine from that time only for present relief, mostly 
stimulants, when the sinking spells came. I lay in bed 
nearly one-third of the time, and could never sit up 
long. I suffered much pain, but more from weak- 
ness. Little troubles rose like mountains before me. 
My only help was in taking all to God in prayer. I 
had heard and read of faith healing, but could not think 
that God was willing thus to heal me, although I fre- 
quently asked him to, when every available remedy 
failed. "Man's extremity is God's opportunity." The 
Holy Spirit made use of a case of faith healing in 
Words of Faith, by Mrs. M. J. Willett, entitled, Faith 
before Sight, As it wits my privilege to be healed, 
I at once took Christ for my physician. He showed 
me that I must quit all medicine, and trust in Him 
alone. That was March 6, 1882. I have not taken 
one drop of medicine since. Now I knew that God 
was willing to heal me, but my faith was not strong 
enough to claim perfect healing at once ; but when 



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the pain or sinking spell came, I just asked Him 
to remove it, and He did, and in two or three 
weeks the sinking spells were gone. I thought this 
was wonderful, but the disease was not removed. The 
hemorrhages were just as frequent all through the 
summer, causing me at such times to be confined to 
my bed. In November my husband became alarmed 
about me, and wrote to you to pray for my complete 
recovery. You appointed Nov. 14, 1882, 3 p. m. 
We united our prayers, and I was healed ; I acted faith 
by walking to church that evening, a distance of nearly 
a quarter of a mile. I walked by faith, and was not 
even tired. Glory be to God ! As soon as the Spirit 
revealed to me that it w r as my privilege to be healed, I 
at once turned to the written Word. There I saw that 
it was not only my privilege, but the privilege of all 
God's dear children, to believe in Him for cleansing 
from sin and healing of the body. Our enemy afflicts ; 
our Saviour heals. He came to destroy the works of 
the devil. I have not lain in bed an hour from sickness 
since I was healed. Walking now is a real pleasure ; 
every step used to be painful. Satan has tried me 
severely, but the manifestations of the Spirit have been 
wonderful. 

" O, that the world might taste and see 
The riches of His grace." 

FAITH HEALING. 

I feel it to be a debt I owe to my Lord to witness to 
His power to heal the body as well as the soul of those 
who trust in his promises. 

I had been afflicted with serious diseases of the 



ANSWERS TO PRAYER. I 5 I 

throat and lungs, together with other troubles, which 
terminated in extreme nervousness ; so that reading, 
conversation, or any noise, caused pain. With my ap- 
proval, an interested friend wrote to Dr. Cullis, of 
Boston, requesting him to unite in prayer for my heal- 
ing. And at the time appointed, two of my friends 
came for that purpose ; and with them and my wife, I 
prayed with faith in the promise of God in Jas. v. 15. 
As we arose from our knees, I immediately received the 
assurance that healing power had passed over me, and 
joy filled my soul, and I shouted praise to Gcd for his 
manifest deliverance. I at once engaged in conversa- 
tion, heard many promises from Scripture read, also 
some accounts of wonderful healing, etc., without the 
slightest inconvenience. Since that time (which is 
nearly five weeks), my strength has continued to in- 
crease, and I have regularly attended worship, and 
rejoice in testifying to the power of Jesus to heal and 
save. 

Nearly three weeks after I was healed, I called with 
a friend, who advised me to take some highly approved 
medicine to strengthen me, which I did, at the moment, 
without much reflection, and accepted some to take 
home. But very soon conviction took hold of my mind, 
and symptoms of the disease rapidly returned, and 
(although I took no more medicine) that night and the 
next day was an occasion of severe conflict. The 
Lord showed me that after all the manifestations of 
His power that had been granted me, I was dishonor- 
ing Him to resort to human remedies, and I w r as again 
enabled to throw myself implicitly upon His faithful- 
ness, and at once relief was granted. 



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Praise and honor and glory are due to him alone who 
said, " Ask and ye shall receive." 

Short Creek, Ohio. Cyrus Dixon. 

Lancaster, Feb. 7, 1883. 
Dr. Cullis. 

Dear Sir, — I write to have you know that through 
the grace of God my faith cure is permanent. I feel 
that God has rewarded your faith in my cure, after hav- 
ing suffered twenty-two years with my limb. Almost 
immediately after prayer had been offered, I could go 
around and attend to my household duties. On last 
Sabbath I attended divine service and thanked the 
Giver of all good for my wonderful restoration. Please 
accept my thanks for your Christian interest in my 
behalf, and know that God wonderfully rewards your 
faith. Yours, Mrs. John D. 

Danielsonville, June 2, 1884. 
Dr. Cullis. 

Dear Sir, — Some three months ago I wrote you 
asking you to pray for a beloved sister who imagined 
she was one of the non-elect and had sinned away the 
day of grace, and was then laboring under great 
distress of mind. We greatly feared she would become 
insane unless the Lord took her case in hand. We 
were therefore led to write you and ask you to pray for 
her ; which I have no doubt you did. 

And now I am happy to say your prayers with ours 
have been answered, for which we give God all the 
glory, and praise his name forevermore. We thank 



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you and pray God to bless your labors more and more 
abundantly, and increase your faith from day to day. 
Pray for the writer, C. H. 

Warren, Warren Co., Penn. 
March 31, 1884. 
Dr. Cullis. 

" The Lord is my strength and my shield, my heart 
trusted in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart 
greatly rejoiceth, and with my song will I praise Him." 
" O Lord, my God, I cried unto Thee, and Thou hast 
healed me." 

That I may honor and glorify my God, who has done 
such wonderful things for me, I give my testimony to 
the world as one healed in answer to prayer. 

For nearly three years I suffered greatly from what 
the physicians called " cancer," or " cancerous tumor." 
Last August I went to New York city and consulted 
a noted physician, who informed me that by under- 
going a serious operation, I had one chance for my 
life, otherwise I could not live a year. My friends 
were not willing I should risk an operation with so little 
hope of success, and I decided to remain quietly at 
home, to live, perhaps, a year. 

In the evening, after making that decision, I read in 
the New York Witness an account of a " Faith Conven- 
tion," recently held at Old Orchard, Me., where many, 
suffering from incurable diseases, were healed in answer 
to prayer. I was greatly impressed with the fact that 
God showed his power over diseases and healed these 
people after the power of man was ended, — that man's 
extremity seemed to be God's opportunity, and the 



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thought came to me, " Why not ask God to cure you ; 
man can do nothing for you, but God can ; give your 
case into His hands." Without a moment's delay I 
did so, and asked for healing. At once the burden 
was lifted, and the sweet assurance given me that my 
prayer was heard, that my health would be restored. 
In twelve hours I was better, in four days the pain and 
inflammation, which had been constant for months, were 
gone, and I went to Boston with perfect ease, when in 
coming from New York a week before it took all the 
courage and strength I possessed to endure the motion 
of the cars. After spending nearly three weeks at the 
" Faith Cure House," under the care of Dr. Cullis, I 
came home perfectly well, filled with new life, health, 
and strength, such as only the dear Heavenly Father 
can give. For six months I have steadily improved. 

My terrible disease with its train of mental and 
physical horrors has entirely disappeared, and with 
thanksgiving and praise to God, I enjoy the delightful 
health He has given me. I fully appreciate that 
"power belongeth unto God." " This is the Lord's 
doing, it is marvelous in our eyes." 

Mrs. L. A. R. 

FAITH AND PRAYER EFFECT TWO REMARKABLE 
WONDERS IN LANCASTER. 

Lancaster, Pa., March 15. — Since the remarkable 
faith cure of Mrs. John S. Dourast, noted a few weeks 
ago, two more cures of the same kind are reported. 
Rev. John Swenk, of No. 312 East Orange street, this 
place, and who holds the position of Moral Instructor 



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at the prison and almshouse, had suffered from a sore 
foot for fourteen years, the result of a sprain. A num- 
ber of physicians attended Mr. Swenk, but all failed to 
permanently cure his affliction. After Mrs. Dourast's 
cure, he wrote to Dr. Cullis, of Boston, and on the 26th 
of February, at 3 p. m., prayer was offered. From that 
time the pain left the foot and has not returned since, 
and the sores are drying up very rapidly. 

The second cure is that of Mrs. H. M. Phillips, of 
No. 345 P^ast Chestnut street. Years ago an opera- 
tion was performed for an internal tumor. About 
Christmas she was sick again from her old complaint. 
For five weeks she was confined to bed, growing 
weaker every day, and her death was looked for. She 
was too weak to speak. Dr. Cullis was written to. 
Prayer was offered, and half an hour later she sat up 
in a rocking-chair. Now she does all her own work, 
having gained steadily since New Year's. The above 
are the versions given by the sufferers themselves. 

The Evening Mail (Thursday, March 15, 1883). 

Dickinson Centre, N. Y., Nov. 20, 1883. 
Dear Dr. : 

In the year 187 1, at the birth of my child I was so 
injured in the spine as to be completely prostrated. 
After months of intense suffering I was able to sit up 
and with greatest care could take a few steps. But 
the death of my child, with the amount of care and 
anxiety attending it, brought me lower than ever, both 
mentally and physically. Such distress in my head ! 
The violent, tearing pain ; the terrible sense of weight, 
almost crushed out my life. My mind became greatly 



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affected and my right side partially paralyzed. I was 
so reduced in flesh that my hand held up to the light 
revealed its whole structure, it was so transparent 
through the loss of flesh. Above my right ankle the 
skin had to all appearances grown to the bone. I was 
able to take very little food. I had to be lifted at 
every change of position. I could not move myself, not 
even raise my foot from the floor. The jar of one 
walking across the floor was almost unendurable. 

Nor was this disease all ; I had the catarrh so 
severely that the sense of smell was entirely gone, and 
taste was greatly impaired. I had had a polypus in 
the nose removed several times, but my physician tells 
me this one must be removed through the throat. 
For years I had suffered from the asthma. With all 
these troubles the organs of speech were so affected 
that my language many times was very difficult to 
understand. For years I had not heard through the 
right ear ; in fact, I was a complete wreck of my 
former self. During my sickness I had called as many 
as eleven physicians, and I constantly grew worse. 
Any exertion (I was ambitious and would attempt to 
walk) would throw me into spasms of unconsciousness. 
When coming out of these, such awful suffering, 
tongue can never tell nor pen describe. Thus I was a 
cripple for life. My husband must move me in his 
arms as a child. I had suffered thus eleven years, six 
of them years of untold misery. W T e had concluded 
"vain i?ideed is the help of man," when a ray of hope 
broke in t>y reading " Prayer, of Faith" brought me by 
my sister, who also wrote Dr. Cullis of Boston, asking 
him to pray for me. He appointed March 6th as the 



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day, at three o'clock p. m. We sent for our pastor, 
Rev. B. G. Blaisdell, a man who takes God at his word, 
and according to appointment I was anointed with oil 
and prayer was offered. 

I immediately arose and walked. Yes, I was healed, 
and really walked as I did twelve years ago. None 
can describe the strange sensation of movement nor the 
emotion of those present who had known me for these 
eleven years as utterly helpless. O such rest and 
peace of soul! It seemed that I was buoyed up in the 
air and that an almighty hand supported me. " Praise 
the Lord, O my soul," &c. My catarrh was gone, the 
senses of smell and taste restored. I could hear dis- 
tinctly. The polypus detached itself and came out 
through the nostril. The flesh on my ankle took on 
new life. I am able to articulate clearly, and though 
I have been exposed to all kinds of weather, there has 
not been the slightest indication of asthma ; and all 
the deformities occasioned by sitting helpless for 
eleven years are removed. I have been able to do a 
large amount of work without ill effect. I really feel 
myself all made over new. When I think of my past 
experience, the agony endured, and the hopes of a life- 
time all blasted, it is with a shudder • but when I re- 
member from whence my deliverance came I can but 
"praise Him from whom all blessings flow." My 
prayer is that I may be enabled to walk in the light, 
seeking only to know and do the Master's will. 

Mrs. E. T. 



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Montreal, May 17, 1884. 

Mrs. Davis, a resident of Montreal, entered herself 
as a patient at the Women's Hospital, Montreal, in the 
middle of November, 1883, suffering from what was 
supposed to be an internal tumor, but was afterwards 
pronounced to be a bleeding cancer. 

After about six weeks' treatment, it was decided by 
the hospital doctors that the only means of saving life 
was for her to submit to an operation : this she con- 
sented to, as her chief anxiety to live was on account 
of her husband, and her son, a young lad. 

Two or three appointments were made, but it was 
feared she was too weak from excessive hemorrhage to 
undergo the operation. 

From this time (end of December) all hope of saving 
life was abandoned, as she appeared sinking lower and 
lower, and any movement in the bed produced fresh 
hemorrhage. 

Mrs. Davis would fall asleep during the night, and 
on waking would find the bed saturated with blood. 

She continued in this suffering condition through 
January and February, with Christian visitors convers- 
ing and praying with her, from time to time, who intro- 
duced to her the subject of " Faith Healing." This 
she had never heard of. But having a few small books 
on the subject with her, and comparing them with 
Scripture, her faith claimed the promises, and she 
wished to be prayed for according to the description 
in James v. 

Dr. Cullis was written to, who appointed Tuesday, 
March 11. 

So strong was her faith in the Word of God that im- 



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mediately, as she consented to this, she felt the change, 
and knew she would recover in answer to prayer, prov- 
ing the truth of Isaiah lxv. 24 : " Before they call I will 
answer, and while they are yet speaking I will hear." 

When the eleventh of March arrived, Mrs. Davis was 
much disappointed, as she understood the friends would 
come to her at three o'clock of that day and pray with 
her. But as no one came, she got up and kneeled by 
the bedside for half an hour, pleading w r ith God ; and 
no evil results came from this unusual effort. 

She also prayed that God would send some Christian 
friend who would relieve her from the sense of loneli- 
ness and disappointment. 

Mr. Lowson, of the Y. M. C. A., was impressed that 
day with the prayer that God would send him to some 
one he had not visited before. He went to the 
Women's Hospital, and found Mrs. Davis just waiting 
for him, so they praised God together. 

Mrs. Davis' recovery was very rapid; the hemorrhage 
entirely ceased, and in about a fortnight (say April 1) 
she was found engaged as one of the appointed nurses 
of the hospital. 

A friend ; hearing of her case, called to see her, when 
she came down four flights of stairs (forty-four steps) 
* to meet him in the hall ; and then returned with him to 
her ward, the same number of steps. Her friend apol- 
ogized for bringing her down so far. " Oh," she said, 
" that is nothing. I go up and down these stairs thirty 
times a day." 

Mrs. Davis has since, in her capacity as nurse, as- 
sisted three doctors in two operations at the hospital 
for tumors. In one instance she was without food from 



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nine till four in the afternoon ; and almost without a 
word uttered during the performance. 

One of the nurses said, u Well, Mrs. Davis, if you 
are not sick to-morrow from this exhaustion, I shall 
think something of your cure. 7 ' 

The next day, after sleeping well during the night, 
she was well as usual. 

A friend asked her, " But what do the doctors say ? " 
She replied, " If I was laid out dead before them, and 
then come to life again, they could not be more aston- 
ished." 

Mr. Lowson asked one of the doctors of her case, 
and he could not account for it. 

Mrs. Davis was asked if she had any relapse since 
her professed cure, and she said, " No ; but if I had, it 
would make no difference ; it would be from some im- 
prudence on my part, not that I was not healed/' 

M. D. 



